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Malware at i2pbrowser.net
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.. meta::
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:date: 2014-02-16
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:excerpt: The site i2pbrowser.net is a fake I2P website mirror serving up malware for Windows.
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We have recently been made aware of the existence of i2pbrowser.net. This
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website copies our homepage and download page, and attempts to trick users into
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downloading Windows malware.
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There are several indicators that point to i2pbrowser.net being a malware site:
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- The domain was registered on February 10th, 2014.
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- The download URLs for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Android etc. all link to the
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same .exe file.
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- The .exe is only 741 KB; the official Windows installer for I2P is 13 MB.
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We have not examined the malware ourselves, but it does not appear to be very
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sophisticated; it is not integrated into or bundled with the I2P software.
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Security expert `Lance James`_ posted `a tweet`_ labelling it as "a standard
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dark comet rat".
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Spread the word. The only offical download locations for I2P are linked on our
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`download page`_. All I2P download packages are GPG-signed by the
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`release signing key`_.
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.. _`Lance James`: https://twitter.com/lancejssc
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.. _`a tweet`: https://twitter.com/lancejssc/status/434768667310821377
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.. _`download page`: {{ get_url('downloads_list') }}
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.. _`release signing key`: {{ site_url('get-involved/develop/release-signing-key') }}
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