![]() Opening the installer results in a familiar install process, with nothing unique about it. It’s yet another fake Adobe Flash Player installer, looking like the thousands of others we’ve seen over the years. This new Crossrider variant doesn’t look like much on the surface. So malware creators are often stuck using the same old methods of persistence that are easy to spot. After all, what good is it to infect a machine if the malware stops running as soon as the computer restarts? There are some cases where that can still be useful (ransomware, for example), but in most cases, that’s not desired behavior. However, the use of a configuration profile introduces a unique new method for maintaining persistence. For the most part, this variant is still quite ordinary, doing some of the same old things that we’ve been seeing for years in Mac adware. A new variant of the Crossrider adware has been spotted that is infecting Macs in a unique way.
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