Analysis by: Cris Nowell Pantanilla

 PLATFORM:

Windows

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Hacking Tool

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted: No

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This hacking tool may arrive bundled with malware packages as a malware component. It may be manually installed by a user.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tipo de compactação: 73,728 bytes
Tipo de arquivo: DLL
Residente na memória: No
Data de recebimento das amostras iniciais: 07 Aug 2012

Arrival Details

This hacking tool may arrive bundled with malware packages as a malware component.

It may be manually installed by a user.

NOTES:

This is the Trend Micro detection for the hacking tool pwdump. This tool is used to get password hashes from a target system such as LAN Manager Hash and NT LAN Manager password hash. This may lead to unauthorized access on the targeted system if the hashes are acquired by a malicious user.

  SOLUTION

Mecanismo de varredura mínima: 9.750
Primeiro arquivo padrão VSAPI: 9.310.02
Data do lançamento do primeiro padrão VSAPI: 07 Aug 2012
VSAPI OPR Pattern Version: 9.311.00
VSAPI OPR Pattern veröffentlicht am: 08 Aug 2012

Step 1

Before doing any scans, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 users must disable System Restore to allow full scanning of their computers.

Step 2

Scan your computer with your Trend Micro product to delete files detected as HKTL_PWDUMP.SMO3. If the detected files have already been cleaned, deleted, or quarantined by your Trend Micro product, no further step is required. You may opt to simply delete the quarantined files. Please check this Knowledge Base page for more information.


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