Recommended methods for Bella RAT removal: Solution for Mac OS X Devices. Bella RAT is capable of injecting harmful codes in your Mac OS X devices without your knowledge and starts corrupting major genuine functions or applications in very quick time. To avoid the detection of malicious activities related to this virus, attackers attempt to. The updated Java release was only made available for Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard; the removal utility was released for Intel versions of Mac OS X Leopard in addition to the two newer operating systems. Users of older operating systems were advised to disable Java.
Recommended methods for Bella RAT removal: Solution for Mac OS X Devices. Bella RAT is capable of injecting harmful codes in your Mac OS X devices without your knowledge and starts corrupting major genuine functions or applications in very quick time. To avoid the detection of malicious activities related to this virus, attackers attempt to. The updated Java release was only made available for Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard; the removal utility was released for Intel versions of Mac OS X Leopard in addition to the two newer operating systems. Users of older operating systems were advised to disable Java.
You really can't because anything like that would likely require or somehow gain access to your Admin password and likely install itself in the best possible location possible, in EFI as firmware program.
EFI is a software firmware that loads before OS X or Windows loads and sits right between the hardware firmware and any operating system, can access the boot drive, record keystrokes and communicate over the Internet without you or the operating system even knowing about it.
EFI resides in it's own hidden partition on the boot drive and survives despite the operating system being reinstalled.
Far as I know there is nothing that can verify if the contents of EFI are legitimate or not, if you suspect you installed something from a untrustworthy source and noticing unusual network traffic despite having eliminated all other possibilities, you might be RATTED.
If you have another Mac, you can install KisMAC and enable the passive driver in preferences and watch the network traffic between your suspected Mac and the wifi router. RAT network activity should be rather high when your not doing jack squat with the suspected machine.
The only solution to this is a complete drive reformat or replacement from Internet Recovery, however if it's got in that deep it's likely to be tainted even Internet Recovery, as I believe that's hardware firmware based which is susceptible to unwanted change. You'll have to take your chances, but if your machine boots from the older Snow Leopard disks, then I would start from there and work back up to 10.8 agian that way.
There is keyboard and battery firmware that also can be changed by malware, however supposedly it's so small that not much can be placed there and reinfect a cleaned system.
We only know about OS X malware if it makes enough copies it draws the attention of security researchers, limited targeted attacks on users is rather trivial task.
Jun 29, 2013 8:45 AM
RAT for Mac?
When there's too much RAT (Remote Administration Tool) available for Windows, people wonder if there's good and useful RAT for Mac as well.
The search and discussions about this topic goes on and on; at one point an online poll favored to continue the development:
A useful description of RATs that works in OSX can be found here.
The most recent/updated development is HellRaiser version 4.2, coded by DCHKG an Underground Mac Programming Team.
HellRaiser includes a configuration component, where the remote controller can specify the server parameters.
The server component is the application distributed to target OS X user. It requires manual execution to install and enable the server to run in background (hidden from dock). Once successful, the server component (or the slave) will report back to the master as shown below.
This is the same version that Intego recently discovered in-the-wild disguised as iPhoto installer.
How would I know if HellRaiser server is installed/running?
option 1: You may open network utility and activity monitor (/Applications/Utilities/) and kill the process.
Rat For Mac Os X 10.10
option 2: You may open terminal, and type lsof -i (this will list running processes and its matching network/internet connection). Search dubious name and internet connection, take note of the PID, and in terminal type kill -9 (this will kill the process).
Rat For Mac Os X 10.8
If you're using Mac security scanner, then it's best time to check for signature update! (most vendors detects this as OSX HellRTS)
