The Proteus Malware current version number is 2.0.0. and it can perform the following actions:
- Creates a socket and set up port forwarding in order to relay malicious traffic through the infected machine, which now acts like a SOCKS proxy.
- Deploy the following crypto-currency miners: SHA256 miner, CPUMiner, and ZCashMiner. These tools can be used to mine for crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Zcash, and others, using the local PC's GPU or CPU.
- Check if passwords still work on stolen user accounts for services like Amazon, eBay, Spotify, Netflix, and some German (.de) domains, and then extract profile information from working accounts.
- Set up a keylogger.
- Download and execute an executable on request.