Analysis by: RonJay Kristoffer Caragay
 ALIASES:

Riskware/ProductKey (Fortinet); Win32/PSWTool.ProductKey potentially unsafe (ESET-NOD32); Tool-PassView (McAfee); PUP.PSWTool.ProductKey (Malwarebytes)

 PLATFORM:

Windows

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

  • Threat Type: Cracking Application

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This cracking application arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tipo de compactação: 77,920 bytes
Tipo de arquivo: EXE
Residente na memória: No
Data de recebimento das amostras iniciais: 10 Apr 2015

Arrival Details

This cracking application arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

NOTES:

It is an application that displays information such as product IDs/keys, etc. of installed Microsoft products.

  SOLUTION

Mecanismo de varredura mínima: 9.750
SSAPI Pattern File: 1.615.00
SSAPI Pattern Release Date: 15 Apr 2015

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 CRCK_PRODKEY. 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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