CPL Malware in Brazil: somewhere between banking trojans and malicious emails

When we analyze the most prevalent threats in Latin America, we see the same malware families across the region. In Brazil, however, there is a different situation. Not only is Brazil one of the most populated countries in the world, but it is also one of the countries with the highest percentage of Internet users using online banking. That is why Brazil is the country where banking trojans are the number one threat.

Throughout 2013 and 2014, we received and analyzed a considerable amount of CPL malware in our Latin American Research Lab, 90% of which came from Brazil. Of those malicious files, 82% of them are some variant of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Banload family; their main goal is to download and install banking trojans in infected systems.

CPL Malware in Brazil: somewhere between banking trojans and malicious emails