Titanium (malware)

Titanium is a very advanced backdoor malware APT, developed by PLATINUM, a cybercrime collective.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] According to Global Security Mag, "Titanium APT includes a complex sequence of dropping, downloading and installing stages, with deployment of a Trojan-backdoor at the final stage.

"[2] Much of the sequence is hidden from detection in a sophisticated manner, including hiding data steganographically in a PNG image.

[3] In their announcement report, Kaspersky Lab concluded: "The Titanium APT has a very complicated infiltration scheme.

One other feature that makes detection harder is the mimicking of well-known software.