Telax Banking Trojan

Posted: December 11, 2015

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Threat Level:	9/10
Infected PCs:	28

First Seen:	December 11, 2015
Last Seen:	January 25, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Telax Banking Trojan is a spyware program that collects banking information for initiating fraudulent financial transactions. Although malware researchers saw small numbers of Telax Banking Trojan infections elsewhere, Telax Banking Trojan is designed to attack Brazilian residents, both in respect to the social networking tactics that install it as well as its account hijacking attacks. PC users suspicious of the possible presence of Telax Banking Trojan should scan their machines with dedicated anti-malware tools that can delete Telax Banking Trojan, and preferably with a brand not covered by Telax Banking Trojan's anti-virus-detecting feature.

Another Banking Problem for Brazilians

Brazil is a common target for the authors of banking Trojans, who often create Portuguese language-specific hoaxes and attacks meant to lure PC users into giving up their information. As one of the latest in this ongoing series of threats, the Telax Banking Trojan has been distributed through browser redirects from a range of corrupted domains, with the additional exploitation of Google's cloud storage resources and Facebook links. The Trojan downloader responsible for installing the Telax Banking Trojan requires the victim's consent for launching but has disguised itself with various masks, including fake Avast products, fake mobile messaging software and fake versions of Receitanet, the Brazil's federal taxation service.

Any victim who follows the obfuscated links from Facebook to one of these files and launches it will have their machines infected by the Telax Banking Trojan, which uses a 32-bit or 64-bit rootkit feature for guaranteeing its automatic startup. Although malware researchers found no especially unusual features with the Telax Banking Trojan, this threat does include side features equivalent to those of other, 'professional' spyware packages, such as:

A Telax Banking Trojan may hijack your mouse cursor or keyboard inputs.
The Telax Banking Trojan may reboot your PC automatically.
Victims may suffer exposure to fraudulent two-factor authentication panels mimicking Norton-based security standards.
The Telax Banking Trojan tries to prevent itself from being analyzed by automatically detected VM (Virtual Machine) environments. If the Telax Banking Trojan detects such an environment, it may self-terminate or even uninstall itself.

Because the Telax Banking Trojan's overarching goal is to gather banking information, the Telax Banking Trojan may redirect a victim to a fake banking site, passively collect any typed information or insert its data-filtering attacks into a network transaction conducting themselves on a safe website. The Telax Banking Trojan also is module-based, which means that it could add new, compartmentalized features with minimal structural problems.

Withdrawing Your PC from the Bank Repository of Thieving Threats

The Telax Banking Trojan's author has shown every indication of continuing with regular updates to this threat kit, which has deployed itself through similarly vigorous methods utilizing a range of Web domains. Many of the Telax Banking Trojan's features also focus on preventing the PC security industry from analyzing its campaign and features for as long as possible, although the current range of its capabilities is well-documented. Currently, malware researchers strongly underline especially the need to avoid common social networking tactics, such as obscured Web links for 'free coupons' and similar forms of bait. All verified installers for the Telax Banking Trojan require the consent, however misinformed, of the victim, with no abuse of drive-by-downloads or other, automated installation exploits.

PCs that already have a Telax Banking Trojan infection may or may not exhibit any distinctive symptoms. The Telax Banking Trojan can modify its behavior according to the instructions received from its C&C server, and may show no obvious files, folders or program entries. With rootkits and similarly high-level threats, malware experts recommend rebooting with the assistance of a non-compromised USB device, which will allow your anti-malware tools their best chances of detecting and deleting a Telax Banking Trojan without any problems.

Telax Banking Trojan

Threat Metric

Another Banking Problem for Brazilians

Withdrawing Your PC from the Bank Repository of Thieving Threats

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