Analysis by: Janus Agcaoili
ALIASES:

Mal/MsilSteal-A (Sophos), PWS:MSIL/Mintluks.A (Microsoft), Spyware.PasswordStealer (Malwarebytes)

 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 arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites. It may be manually installed by a user.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tamaño del archivo 71,168 bytes
Tipo de archivo EXE
Residente en memoria No
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 14 May 2014

Arrival Details

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

It may be manually installed by a user.

Other Details

This hacking tool does the following:

  • Displays this GUI when executed:
  • It attempts to get stored information such as user names, passowrds, and hostnames from the following applications/browsers:
    • Google Chrome
    • Filezilla
    • Vitalwerks DUC
    • DynDNS
    • Paltalk
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Windows Live MSN
    • Yahoo
    • Opera
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer
    Displays the information gathered in the textbox of the hacktool's GUI.

  SOLUTION

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.800
Primer archivo de patrones de VSAPI 1.680.50
Primera fecha de publicación de patrones de VSAPI 24 Nov 2015
Versión de patrones OPR de VSAPI 1.681.00
Fecha de publicación de patrones OPR de VSAPI 25 Nov 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 HKTL_PASSDUMP.GA. 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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