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THESE YOUTUBE GAMING VIDEOS ARE SPREADING MALWARE

By Sead Fadilpašić
published 2 days ago

Self-seeding malware spreading through malicious YouTube videos

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A newly discovered malicious campaign that distributes the RedLine Stealer
infostealer comes with a very interesting self-propagation mechanism,
researchers have found. 



Cybersecurity experts from Kaspersky uncovered new malware (opens in new tab)
that logs into the YouTube accounts of compromised users and uploads a video to
their channel, which distributes RedLine Infostealer.



A victim, ideally a PC gamer, finds a YouTube video on cracks, or cheats, for
one of their favorite games: either FIFA, Final Fantasy, Forza Horizon, Lego
Star Wars, or Spider-Man. In the video’s description are links that claim to
hold those cracks and cheats which, in fact, host multiple malware bundled
together.





CRYPTOJACKERS, INFOSTEALERS

In the bundle is RedLine Stealer, one of the most popular infostealers nowadays,
capable of stealing (opens in new tab) passwords stored in people’s browsers,
cookies, credit card details, instant messaging conversations, and
cryptocurrency wallets. 

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The bundle also holds a cryptojacker, essentially a cryptocurrency miner which
uses the computing power of the compromised endpoint to mine certain
cryptocurrency for the attackers. Cryptocurrency mining usually requires
significant GPU power, something most gamers usually have.



But perhaps most interestingly, the bundle has three malicious executables, used
for self-propagation. These are called “MakiseKurisu.exe”, “download.exe”, and
“upload.exe”. MakiseKurisu is an infostealer that grabs browser cookies and
stores them locally. 

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Then, download.exe would grab the fake crack video from a GitHub repository, and
hand it over to upload.exe, which would upload it to the victim’s YouTube
account, after using cookies to log in.

If the victim isn’t an avid YouTube user, or has notifications turned off, there
is a good chance the malicious video could sit on their YouTube channel for a
long time, before being taken down.

“When the video is successfully uploaded to YouTube, upload.exe sends a message
to Discord with a link to the uploaded video,” Kaspersky explains.

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Sead Fadilpašić


Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity
(ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more
than a decade, he’s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera
Balkans. He’s also held several modules on content writing for Represent
Communications.

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