Threat Thursday: STRRat Malware
STRRat is a Java-based Remote-Access Trojan (RAT) that has a plethora of malicious functionality, focused primarily on information stealing and backdoor capabilities. It gathers credentials from browsers and email clients, and has online and offline keystroke logging abilities. STRRat also has the capability of mimicking a ransomware attack. No files are encrypted; the malware just appends the file-extension “.crimson” while opening Notepad to display a false ran…