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Desex

Classification

Category:

Malware

Aliases:

  • Desex
  • DDoS.Win32.Desex.a

Summary

Desex is a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) trojan. It can perform a DoS attack on certain servers on Internet. The trojan can be hiddenly dropped to users' computers and then used to perform a DoS attack.

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Technical Details

The trojan is written in Visual C++ and its file is packed with UPX file compressor. The packed executable size is 6656 bytes, the unpacked length is 9216 bytes.

Desex trojan attacks the following 3 servers:

212.7.144.70 193.219.15.17 212.7.128.165

To attack these servers the trojan uses certain functions from WS2_32.DLL library:

WSAStartup htons inet_addr socket sendto WSACleanup

The trojan contains the following text strings:

sex de

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