No Way Home Torrents May Contain Crypto Malware, Cybersecurity Firm Predicts So

Cybersecurity firm Reasonlabs cautioned Thursday that cryptocurrency malware has been found in a torrent download of the new Marvel hit film “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The cybersecurity firm prompted that one simple insurance is to consistently make sure that the extension of the document being downloaded matches that of the record expected to download. For instance, a film record should end with “.mp4” and not “.exe.” The firm added that “To ensure you see the real file extension, open a folder, go to ‘View’ and check ‘File name extensions.’ This will ensure you see the full record type.” The full examination of this malware can be seen as here.

Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has hit the $1 billion mark at the box office, making it the highest-grossing movie of 2021. The third installment of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man series, No Way Home is the first movie released during the Covid-19 pandemic to reach the $1 billion mark.

Reasonlabs, which provides enterprise-grade cyber protection for users worldwide, noted that “To lure in as many victims as possible, attackers must stay up to date with trending topics.” The cybersecurity firm elaborated: In this case, we are facing someone who has placed a monero miner in a torrent download of what seems to be the new movie Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Reasonlabs explained: “The file identifies itself as ‘spiderman_net_putidomoi.torrent.exe,’ which translates from Russian to ‘spiderman_no_wayhome.torrent.exe.’” The firm believes that the file most likely originated from a Russian torrenting website.

This miner adds exclusions to Windows Defender, creates persistence, and spawns a watchdog process to maintain its activity.

According to the firm:

“The malware tries to stay away from examining eyes, by using ‘legitimate’ names for the files and processes that it creates; for example, it claims to be by Google and drops files with names like sihost64.exe, and injects to svchost.exe,” Reasonlabs described.

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