Qarallax RAT

Posted: January 29, 2018

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Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	94

First Seen:	October 15, 2023

The Qarallax RAT is a Remote Access Tool that also includes spyware features that are suitable for collecting information. Besides transferring your data to remote attackers, the Qarallax RAT infections also can provide them with a high level of straight control over the PC through various methods, such as accessing Windows maintenance and security applications. This threat exhibits no symptoms and users always should use an up-to-date anti-malware program to delete the Qarallax RAT securely.

The Next Wave of Backdoor Attacks Begins

The business of distributing threatening software is also tightly interwoven with the business of developing it, with many developers choosing to offload the former onto third-party criminals. Even though malware analysts can verify the Qarallax RAT's going back as far as 2016, at least, the combination of spyware and Trojan is surging in activity as of the current year. Based on the number of victims – hundreds of separate, unrelated organizations – the Qarallax RAT's threat actors are, still, giving other criminals opportunities to distribute the Trojan to random targets for a fee.

The most frequent infection vector for the Qarallax RAT is spam e-mails, with users installing the software after clicking on an embedded image or attachment. The latest variants of the Qarallax RAT include additional updates that help it evade traditional threat database analytics, with only a few brands of anti-malware products detecting it appropriately. Once it's running, it shows no symptoms while delivering various features for remote attackers to take advantage of, including:

The Qarallax RAT may drop and run other files on the PC, including installers for other threats, such as banking Trojans.
Criminals may modify the file system in various ways, including opening, moving, renaming or even deleting data.
A remote desktop connection allows the remote attacker to take direct control over user input devices like the mouse or keyboard.
However, the Qarallax RAT also includes some attacks that are typical of spyware, such as recording the user's keystrokes and webcam, as well as taking screenshots and grabbing credentials (including passwords or login usernames) automatically.

Keeping Your PC from Being a Nest for the RAT that Just Will not Quit

The Qarallax RAT, which also uses aliases like Quaverse, Qrypter, QRAT, and Qontroller, is available to any threat actor that's willing to pay a modest Bitcoin fee for the privilege of using it. Its developers also, periodically, make outdated versions of the Trojan available as 'free samples.' Like most stealth-oriented threats, any symptoms associated with Qarallax RAT infections are minimal, and users shouldn't assume that they'll be able to monitor any of its data-exfiltrating or backdoor attacks visually.

Spam e-mails may disguise Qarallax RAT's Trojan dropper as being an image related to product samples or transactions, and malware researchers see similar templates of these attacks for multiple languages, including English and Italian. Due to the risk of the theft of data, users should change their passwords and take other precautions as appropriate after resolving any infection. Anti-malware utilities also should have their latest databases updates for removing the Qarallax RAT safely from the PC.

As a Java-based threat, the Qarallax RAT is compatible with most editions of Windows. The fact that its threat actors are, still, investing so much into its development, unfortunately, implies that its attacks are remaining profitable against insufficiently protected PC users.

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Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:

syncintenselyrenewedinfo-program.info