Cherry Picker

Cherry Picker is a point of sale (PoS) memory scraper. [1]

ID: S0107
Type: MALWARE
Platforms: Windows
Version: 1.1
Created: 31 May 2017
Last Modified: 30 March 2020

Techniques Used

Domain ID Name Use
Enterprise T1546 .010 Event Triggered Execution: AppInit DLLs

Some variants of Cherry Picker use AppInit_DLLs to achieve persistence by creating the following Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows "AppInit_DLLs"="pserver32.dll"[1]

Enterprise T1048 .003 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol: Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol

Cherry Picker exfiltrates files over FTP.[1]

Enterprise T1070 .004 Indicator Removal on Host: File Deletion

Recent versions of Cherry Picker delete files and registry keys created by the malware.[1]

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