MalwareMustDie

MalwareMustDie

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Abbreviation	MMD
Formation	August 28, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-08-28)
Type	Nonprofit organization & NGO
Purpose	Constructive research & awareness to reduce malware
Headquarters	Japan, Germany, France, United States
Region	Global
Membership	< 100
Website	www.malwaremustdie.org

MalwareMustDie, NPO^[1][2] is a whitehat security research workgroup that was launched in August 2012. MalwareMustDie is a registered nonprofit organization as a medium for IT professionals and security researchers gathered to form a work flow to reduce malware infection in the internet. The group is known for their malware analysis blog.^[3] They have a list^[4] of Linux malware research and botnet analysis that they have completed. The team communicates information about malware in general and advocates for better detection for Linux malware.^[5]

MalwareMustDie is also known for their efforts in original analysis for a new emerged malware or botnet, sharing of their found malware source code^[6] to the law enforcement and security industry, operations to dismantle several malicious infrastructure,^[7][8] technical analysis on specific malware's infection methods and reports for the cyber crime emerged toolkits.

Several notable internet threats that were first discovered and announced by MalwareMustDie are:

• Prison Locker^[9] (ransomware)
• Mayhem^[10][11] (Linux botnet)
• Kelihos botnet v2^[12][13]
• ZeusVM^[14]
• Darkleech botnet analysis^[15]
• KINS (Crime Toolkit)
• Cookie Bomb^[16] (malicious PHP traffic redirection)
• Mirai^{[17][18][19][20]}
• LuaBot^[21][22]
• NyaDrop^[23][24]
• NewAidra or IRCTelnet^[25][26][27]
• Torlus aka Gafgyt/Lizkebab/Bashdoor/Qbot/BASHLITE)^[28]
• LightAidra ^[29]
• PNScan^[30][31][32]
• STD Bot
• Kaiten^[33][34] botnets (Linux DDoS or malicious proxy botnet Linux malware)
• ChinaZ (China DDoS Trojan)
• Xor DDoS^[35][36][37] (China DDoS Trojan)
• IpTablesx^[38] (China DDoS Trojan)
• DDoSTF^[39] (China DDoS Trojan)
• DESDownloader^[40] (China DDoS Trojan)
• Cayosin DDoS botnet^[41][42][43]
• DDoSMan^[44][45][46] (China DDoS Trojan)
• AirDropBot DDoS botnet^[47][48][49]
• Mirai FBot DDoS botnet^[50][51][52]
• Kaiji IoT DDoS/bruter botnet^[53][54][55]

MalwareMustDie has also been active in analysis for client vector threat's vulnerability. For example, Adobe Flash CVE-2013-0634 (LadyBoyle SWF exploit)^[56][57] and other undisclosed Adobe vulnerabilities in 2014 have received Security Acknowledgments for Independent Security Researchers from Adobe.^[58] Another vulnerability researched by the team was reverse engineering a proof of concept for a backdoor case (CVE-2016-6564) of one brand of Android phone device that was later found to affect 2 billion devices.^[59]

Recent activity of the team still can be seen in several noted threat disclosures, for example, the "FHAPPI" state-sponsored malware attack,^[60] the finding of first ARC processor malware,^[61][62][63] and "Strudel" threat analysis (credential stealing scheme). ^[64] The team continues to post new Linux malware research on Twitter and their subreddit.

MalwareMustDie compares their mission to the Crusades, emphasizing the importance of fighting online threats out of a sense of moral duty. Many people have joined the group because they want to help the community by contributing to this effort.^[65]