
| Names | Imecab | |
| Category | Malware | |
| Type | Backdoor | |
| Description | (Symantec) The purpose of Trojan.Imecab is to set up a persistent remote access account on the target machine with a hardcoded password. Variants of the malware were also observed with the filename guester.exe which likely refers to the functionality of adding a powerful guest account to the system. The malware installs itself in the system as a Windows service to achieve persistence and ensure that the guest account remains available to the attacker. | |
| Information | <https://symantec-blogs.broadcom.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/leafminer-espionage-middle-east> | |
| Malpedia | <https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.imecab> | |
Last change to this tool card: 23 April 2020
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| Changed | Name | Country | Observed | ||
APT groups | |||||
| Leafminer, Raspite | 2017 | ||||
1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
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