Categories: Anti-malware

Ursnif Banking Trojan's Distribution Networks Exposed

By Ionut Arghire on February 17, 2017
 

Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have managed to identify distribution networks used by the Ursnif banking Trojan to target various users worldwide.

 

The Ursnif Trojan is distributed via spam emails that contain malicious attachments meant to download the Ursnif executable from a remote site. While analyzing the threat, Palo Alto researchers discovered that there are two main components in the malware’s distribution network, namely a spam botnet to send malicious emails, and compromised web servers to host the malware.

 

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