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PandaZeuS’s Christmas Gift: Change in the Encryption scheme

ID: e721f569-e892-5a60-9351-25bb775fa8e4

STIX ID: report--e721f569-e892-5a60-9351-25bb775fa8e4

Feed Name: The Spamhaus Project

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2017-12-28

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

Author: The Spamhaus Team

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Spamhaus Malware Labs observed a Christmas-season wave of PandaZeuS (Panda Banker) banking trojan samples updated to version 2.6.1 that introduce a modified RC4-based base-config encryption routine (additional state-array mixing) likely intended to break malware extractors; sinkhole data shows the botnet targets primarily English-speaking users and associated botnet domains are poorly detected.

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