BernhardPOS – New POS Malware Discovered by Morphick

Yet another new credit card dumping utility has been discovered.  BernhardPOS is named after (presumably) it’s author who left in the build path of “C:bernhardDebugbernhard.pdb” and also uses the name Bernhard in creating the mutex “OPSEC_BERNHARD”.  This utility does several interesting things to evade antivirus detection.  We’ll talk over some of them in detail.  Details about the sample, including a hash are available at the end of this writeup.

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