Dota 2 And Diablo Iii Beta Testing Cracks Come With Backdoor Trojans

snoopy · Jan 8, 2012

January 7th, 2012, 11:52 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs
DotA 2 and Diablo III Beta Testing Cracks Come with Backdoor Trojans

Since the highly expected games Defense of the Ancients (DotA) 2 and Diablo III beta versions were released for testers, cybercriminals began posting fake game variants and cracks that carefully masquerade malicious backdoor Trojans which give them access to infected computers.

Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) researchers stumbled upon a couple of files on torrent and file-sharing sites that hide some relatively new pieces of malware.

A file called dota 2 Betakeys.txt.exe was found to carry a backdoor identified as Backdoor:MSIL/Pontoeb.J which once executed, begins to gather sensitive information from the infected device, sending it back to its master. With the use of a WMI query, Pontoeb, discovered on December 22, 2011, retrieves data such as SerialNumber, SystemDrive, operating system and processor architecture. However, this is not its ultimate goal. Its main purpose is to morph the infected system into a zombie by installing a backdoor which allows an attacker to control the
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