Pitou

First seen
2014-04-01 00:00:00
Malware type
botnet, rootkit
Family
Malware family
Last IoC activity
2026-06-11 17:42:44
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:15:44

Context

According to TG Soft, Pitou has beeen released on April 2014. It maybe an evolution of the rootkit "Srzizbi" developed on 2008. Pitou is a spambot, the main goal is send spam form the computer of victim.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Pitou_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Pitou (report)
  • f-secure.com — Pitou Whitepaper (report)
  • isc.sans.edu — 25068 (report)
  • johannesbader.ch — The Dga Of Pitou (report)
  • citeseerx.ist.psu.edu — Download (report)
  • tgsoft.it — News Archivio Eng (report)

External references