One of the CIA Cyberweapon Called “Pandemic” Document Leaked by Vault 7 Projects of WikiLeaks.This Malware tool Specifically interact and run as kernel shellcode to install File system Driver.
This Malware will the attack the Victim Machine if user accesses the file via SMB, the Payload files will be Replaced to the Actual Target file .This Function will work in Read-only Mode.
Already Released CIA cyberweapon’s DoublePulsar and MicroBotMassiveNet having some Sophisticated Futures and also affected by same SMB.
“Pandemic” Malware’s Actual Goal is to be installed in Victims Machine when the Victims remote users use SMB to download/execute PE files.
According the Leaked CIA’s “Pandemic” Secret Document, It won’t make sense and it will not replace the Target file if the file is opened on the machine Where Pandemic is running on.
Pandemic Leads to Unchanged the File But Replaced
While “Pandemic” entered into the Victims Machine when user accesses the file via SMB,it will not do any physical Changes in the Target Files.
According to leaked Source of Vault 7 ,Users that are targeted by Pandemic, and use SMB to download the targeted file, will receive the ‘replacement’ file.
“Pandemic” can operate both 32 and 64 bit .CONOP(Concept of Operation) done by the CIA ,version 1.0 can works only on 64 bit targets.
A “Pandemic” Tool ability to Replace up to 20 files by using the Latest version of Pandemic 1.0.
File Information of “Pandemic”
First version (1.0) of the “Pandemic” Developed on17 April, 2014 by Engineering Development Group of CIA and the versions has been updated on16 January 2015 with some extra capability including Replaced files up to 20 in victims machines.
Files Executable and DLL looks like Pandemic_Builder.exe, Control.dll