TrendLabs engineers were recently able to obtain a malware sample of the “destructive malware” described in reports about the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warning to U.S. businesses last December 2. According to Reuters, the FBI issued a warning to businesses to remain vigilant against this new “destructive” malware in the wake of the recent Sony Pictures attack. As of this writing, the link between the Sony breach and the malware mentioned by the FBI has yet to be verified.
The FBI flash memo titled “#A-000044-mw” describes an overview of the malware behavior, which reportedly has the capability to override all data on hard drives of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up.
Below is an analysis of our own findings here...........http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/an-analysis-of-the-destructive-malware-behind-fbi-warnings/
The FBI flash memo titled “#A-000044-mw” describes an overview of the malware behavior, which reportedly has the capability to override all data on hard drives of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up.
Below is an analysis of our own findings here...........http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/an-analysis-of-the-destructive-malware-behind-fbi-warnings/