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)