Big Brother
It seems that development of the main module of SpyEye stopped with last autumn’s version 1.3.48 – and this is now
the dominant strain of SpyEye malware.
SpyEye distribution by versions for the period since 1 January 2012* * Others (7%) includes: 1.2.50, 1.2.58, 1.2.71, 1.2.80, 1.2.82, 1.2.93, 1.3.5, 1.3.9, 1.3.25, 1.3.26,
1.3.30, 1.3.32, 1.3.37, 1.3.41, 1.3.44.
But just because the authors are not developing this platform further, it doesn’t mean that SpyEye is no longer
getting new functions. The core code allows anyone to create and attach their own plugins (DLL libraries). I’ve been
analyzing SpyEye samples since the start of the year, and I’ve counted 35 different plugins. Below you can see a
table with those plugins and the corresponding number of samples in which they were included: