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 Tool: Shifu
Names Shifu
Category Malware
Type Banking trojan, Credential stealer, Info stealer
Description
(Palo Alto) Shifu is a Banking Trojan first discovered in 2015. Shifu is based on the Shiz
source code which incorporated techniques used by Zeus. Attackers use Shifu to steal
credentials for online banking websites around the world, starting in Russia but later including
the UK, Italy, and others.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 research has found that the Shifu authors have evolved Shifu in
2016. Our research has found that Shifu has incorporated multiple new techniques to infect
and evade detection on Microsoft Windows systems.
Information
Malpedia Last change to this tool card: 23 April 2020
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All groups using tool Shifu
Changed Name Country Observed
APT groups
 Sprite Spider, Gold Dupont [Unknown] 2015-Nov 2022
 TA505, Graceful Spider, Gold Evergreen 2006-Nov 2022
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=18fad182-dce7-4803-8378-f6e79a08fd7c
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2 groups listed (2 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=18fad182-dce7-4803-8378-f6e79a08fd7c
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=18fad182-dce7-4803-8378-f6e79a08fd7c
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