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bink on Sept 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered

What is it that makes this malware sophisticated? I didn't see anything about rootkits or process hiding / obfuscation. Is it not just a simple daemon that can be configured to monitor audio/video/keyboard and send the results back via an encrypted connection?

mauz0r on Sept 9, 2016 [–]

My guess would be that they figured out how to compile QT statically (hence 14MB file size)... Other then that it seems to be a common RAT

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