Malware That Gives a F*ck

Ever been trapped in a conversation with someone about a topic that you absolutely don’t care about? A conversation that you wish you could bluntly interrupt with a dramatic conversation ender? You could vocally end such a conversation with a blunt phrase like “Look at all the fucks I give!” But that’s a little crude. A better way is to carry shredded confetti in your pockets, each with the word F*CK printed on them, and when you get trapped in such a conversation, just reach in with both hands and toss that confetti in the air dramatically and walk away. My wife and I have even invented our own American sign language word of pulling hands out of pockets and tossing fake confetti in the air to symbolize when conversations should be over.

Now I have found a piece of malware that shares this mindset. With any executable file, there are text snippets called STRINGS that programmers fill in to document, at a high level, what the executable is intended to do. But with malware, these STRINGS are typically forged, ignored, left blank, or filled with misleading information. This one binary that I found today is the equivalent to my confetti conversation ender.

Finally! Malware that Gives a F*ck! #Cynomix No neighboring malware cuz only this malware gives this many f*cks! pic.twitter.com/YoWbqXX0Dr

— Cyber Mad Hatter (@BelchSpeak) April 29, 2015