The security researchers at ESET have uncovered InvisiMole: a spyware that has been active at least since 2013. The company’s security products recently detected it in Russia and Ukraine.

As its name suggests, InvisiMole remains hidden and performs highly targeted actions with low infection ratio. The malicious components of the malware turn the computer into a spying video camera to closely monitor the victim’s activities.

Its capabilities also include inspecting the PC for system information, running services, active processes, networking information, scanning wireless networks, tracking geolocation, monitoring specific drives, etc. All these tasks are performed using component modules — RC2FM and RC2CL.

The working of this spyware can be explained using its modular architecture. The very first module is a wrapper DLL that makes the malware look like legitimate DLL file. The malware can be launched by hijacking a DLL and loading the wrapper module during the Windows startup process instead of the legitimate DLL.

 

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