Finding a malware in a cracked software
Many of us use cracked software as we all like to use premium things free of cost but always remember that in today’s world nothing is free. So I am going to tell you how I found a malware in a cracked software.
I was searching for SpyNote 6.4 RAT(Remote Administration tool) which is a software that gives a hacker full control and full access to your system. The hacker can steal your sensitive information. So I found the cracked version of the RAT.
I downloaded this RAT as it is a cracked version but wait for a while and think why would anyone give a paid thing for free and cracking a software is not that easy as it requires a lot of patience and knowledge and time to crack a software can take hours and even days. So let’s find out where is the malware. I used 7zip tool for this as by this tool you can extract a executable file also.
After extracting out the file I founded this.
As you can see that there are two executable files and the RAT version is 6.4 so as a normal guy I will click on SpyNote 6.4 RAT Cracked.exe and I will get hacked. Let me show you all.
Go to SpyNote 6.4 Cracked.exe. Right click on it. Extract the file with 7zip and you will get this.
The executable file is extracted now let’s go more deep into it.
There are two .exe files and if we see carefully the first .exe file is a malware as there is the icon of 888 RAT which is a very popular RAT . I uploaded this file on VirusTotal and as I thought it was detectable as it is a public RAT.
Also you can see the result of this file here https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/34ddd8dafe9e6fabe4cac3428ce0f9b1d51183ecd3d70aa4d483086ee64a514f/detection
We can also extract this .exe file to go more deep into it.
There are three files two .exe files and one .vbs file. Both .exe files are malware and the .vbs file is a script used to bypass the windows defender. The result of both .exe files https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/58c8e3599d16762dfc51decf16c3d014cd8c8dd1aab59a0acff5372c5182bda7/detection
The script used above is used from here.
We can see that the cracked software contains malware and also the social engineering skills used by the hacker by which the hacker can hack the person downloading the cracked software. Always be careful while downloading any thing as by our small mistake we can be hacked. Don’t think that antivirus can protect you as antivirus works on signature pattern which is present on it’s database and malware can be made FUD (Fully Undetectable) as there are many techniques to make FUD. So don’t use cracked software. Use genuine software provided by the company as your security is your priority.
Thank you everyone and have a nice day.
(Note: This article is only for educational purposes)
