Investigating the characteristics of stealer viruses and ways of his spreading on the Internet

Author: NAZAR NOVOSEL

Company/ Institution: Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Country: Ukraine

e-mail: jasuselection@man.gov.ua

web: https://man.gov.ua/en

Analyzing the problem of malware distribution and functional features, this research makes an argument why free stealers are dangerous on a par with commercial variants. The detailed analysis of free (StormKitty) and MaaS (RedlineStealer) approaches to distributing infostealers using executable file decompilation methods is presented.