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Custom Trojan Creation Tool Sold Online
Finch writes "Net Security.org is reporting on the surprisingly sophisticated 'virus in a can' software called Pinch. Pinch is a tool sold on several online forums and designed to create Trojans. It allows attackers to specify the data that Trojans steal. One of the interface tabs, PWD, allows malicious users to select the type of password to be stolen by the Trojan: from email passwords to passwords kept by the system tools. It is possible to order the Trojan to encrypt this data when sending it, so that nobody else can read it. 'Pinch also lets users carry out other actions: turn infected computers into zombie computers, pack Trojans to make detection more difficult, and kill certain system processes, particularly those of security solutions.'"
Yes, but does it run on Linux?
How much is it and where can I buy it? For, uh, research purposes.
they were distributing trojans like this in the 1990s... sub7 anyone? ;)
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There is nothing new here.
I remember back in my script kiddie days I was able to download programs that would put together a trojan or virus together from the various options the user selected. Press a button and viola! It generated an executable. This was ten years ago.
What's so new here? That fact that someone is commercializing it?
Well, good. If you have to shell out cash at least it will keep my 16 year old self from downloading it and causing annoyances.
Love sees no species.
If anybody tries to install a trojan on my computer, I'll hit them back.
With Winnuke95.
"1NCRE@SE Y0UR PEN1S S1ZE 25% 1N 2 WEEKS!" programs I definitely need custom Trojans.
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I still remember the password was chiba city.
anyone who would use one of these would likely download a pirated version.
A great slogan for this program, but I bet our latex buddies have an entirely different interpretation of that...
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I'm going to design mine with the ribs on the inside! For my pleasure! Aww yeah!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Eh. Trojans/rootkits/viruses built form these "kits" tend to all be very similar. Essentially, if you defend against one, you're defended against all the others.
Never mind the fact that it's a fucking KIT. If YOU can download it, so can the anti-virus people in order to figure out how to detect viruses made with it.
The interesting thing about modern viruses/trojans/whatever is that very few of them are really *viruses* anymore. They rely almost completely on simply getting a user to manually run (or at least give permission to the system to run) an obfuscated executable. It's sad that the technique is so successful.
EULA
By agreeing to the purchase and install of Trojan-o-Matic, hereby called the 'Software', you agree to host 'x' amount of porn or phishing sites. The amount is determined by the Software according to its use and the creator of the software. At any time, you submit your computer to be a host server for the Software Creator's Nigerian email server. That is all.... oh, and your bank account is empty.
EULA, Pinch, 2.60
I reserve the right to go ballistic on your ass if you rip me off. (But feel free to redistribute if you include your custom trojan in the file.)
EULA - most other software
[four to six pages of nonsense much of it in all caps, mainly stating the exact same as above with the exclusion of the parenthesis but adding a page or two basically saying "I can also castrate you with a dull wooden spoon if you do something I would rather you pay me extra to get done."]
Oh, actually a search for "pinch" on emule turns up quite a plethora of results... although once you've sorted out the porn and downloaded a few exe files (yes I know, for most geeks this is the exact reverse of the normal process), for some odd reason antivirus warnings start to pop up... apparently two out of three pinch downloads was infected with "Win32/PSW.LdPinch.P4 trojan" and the third with some other crap that I forgot to write down.
You can almost see the scriptkiddies sitting there with their brand new trojan going... "hmm, now if only I had some program to trick people into downloading... something I could merge my trojan with to start off my botfarm. Something I could put on fasttrack, and maybe emule... something idiots would download and run even if their antivirus goes off. Hey wait a minute, I'm an idiot and I just ran pinch even though 'norton' told me it was bad for me!"
it's the first slashvertisment that makes you search for the shop yourself...
Did you stop to think that maybe the construction set was identified as a Trojan because it ... you know ... contained the code for a Trojan? As in ... if it tripped your antivirus then you probably had the right one.
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Since I have to take care of a lot of machines of people that get these things, my otherwise non-violent nature would like to find the authors, well, in a Turkish prison. Yes these things have been sold on the net for a long damn time, but I've also had to scrape, reformat, debug, and otherwise keep hapless unwitting people from the damage these things do. They're often chained to using Windows whether they want to or not.
I've seen them spend hundreds of dollars on both prevention and cure, only to get owned again. This isn't about Microsoft, this is about guys that are the seeming equivalent to those that might cut brake lines in a car. The outcome isn't injurious physically, just emotionally/mentally and financially.
My hacker instinct says always continue to hack and explore and try and break things, but selling trojans seems way over the top. No fucking 'let them download Ubuntu or get a second mortgage for a Mac' shit. This is real, this is vulgur, and this is a business plan for bright guys gone bad.... and I don't get paid for scraping this crap.
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I had to modify the following post to take any direct references as I have no way of knowing if you, personally, actually made use of your exploits outside of your own private testing environment...
I guess that's the difference between real tao programmers and script kiddies.
I _could_ have engaged in the same things that script kiddies did, exploiting other people for personal amusement and/or gain, but made a conscious decision not to. I saw the links, I looked at the downloads, the ftp sites, and the web pages. I _could_ have become involved in that sort of thing.
But, and I guess a significant majority of the population is lacking this little definition in their upbringing, I decided that there were far better uses for my intellectual ability... You know, something productive, something which would benefit people, something which didn't rely on targetting and exploiting others' ignorance.
The actions of script kiddies (and don't take this personally because you're part of the greater population) remind me of taking the lunch money from a quadrapalegic.
What's really sick is that most of them got a real kick out of it--and they're the asshats that I'll have to work next to in the professional world.
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I'm believing that the future of anti-virus/rootkit solutions has to be a live CD that runs fully independently of the host system and software being scanned.
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Considering that "virii" is a made-up, non-English word, then yes, I can believe Bush using it and being mocked in the media the next day for another brilliant Bushism. The proper plural is "viruses".
Hate to be the one who bears bad news. And by the way, "boxen" is not a real word either.
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