ZeusVM
Posted: March 6, 2014
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 9/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 133 |
First Seen: | March 10, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | June 14, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
ZeusVM is a Trojan that spreads to vulnerable computer systems as a configuration file which is hidden as a harmless image. ZeusVM is a new version of the ZeuS banking Trojan that targets financial institutions. ZeusVM is created to retrieve its configuration file from an image. ZeusVM retrieves a JPG image from a server alongside other components. An image is copied from the Internet, but with some additional code attached to it. By using steganography, the attackers have added the malware configuration data to the image without destroying it. The fact that the configuration file is hidden as an image has numerous advantages, involving the fact that the malicious code can avoid security software. A PC user, whose computer is used to host the file would likely not suspect that the image is, in actuality, a part of a malicious operation.
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