WITCHCOVEN

Description

(FireEye) The perpetrators alter specific websites to redirect visitors to a profiling script we call WITCHCOVEN. This script collects detailed information about the user’s computer and installs a persistent tracking tool, called a “supercookie,” which becomes part of a unique ‘browser fingerprint’ that can identify the user’s computer moving forward.

Names

Name
WITCHCOVEN

Category

Malware

Type

  • Reconnaissance
  • Dropper

Information

Malpedia

Other Information

Uuid

f3c64193-9cb2-4ae3-b1b9-fa66980371df

Last Card Change

2020-04-23