Names | HDRoot HDD Rootkit | |
Category | Malware | |
Type | Backdoor, Rootkit | |
Description | (Kaspersky) The program parameters are quite self-explanatory – this tool installs a bootkit that infects the operating system during the boot stage with an arbitrary backdoor specified as a parameter. The backdoor has to be a Win32 executable or dynamic link library. This utility is called “HDD Rootkit”; hence the base of our verdict names HDRoot. On 22 August 2006 the version number was 1.2. | |
Information | <https://securelist.com/i-am-hdroot-part-1/72275/> <https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/72356/i-am-hdroot-part-2/> <http://williamshowalter.com/a-universal-windows-bootkit/> | |
Malpedia | <https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.hdroot> | |
AlienVault OTX | <https://otx.alienvault.com/browse/pulses?q=tag:hdroot> |
Last change to this tool card: 24 April 2021
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Changed | Name | Country | Observed | ||
APT groups | |||||
APT 41 | 2012-Aug 2024 |
1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
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