Unit 42 Technical Analysis: Seaduke

Earlier this week Symantec released a blog post detailing a new Trojan used by the ‘Duke’ family of malware. Within this blog post, a payload containing a function named ‘forkmeiamfamous’ was mentioned. While performing some research online, Unit 42 was able to identify the following sample, which is being labeled as ‘Trojan.Win32.Seadask’ by a number of anti-virus companies.

Our analysis has turned up more technical details and indicators on the malware itself that aren’t m...