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

Tamaño del archivo 73,728 bytes
Tipo de archivo DLL
Residente en memoria No
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 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

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.750
Primer archivo de patrones de VSAPI 9.310.02
Primera fecha de publicación de patrones de VSAPI 07 Aug 2012
Versión de patrones OPR de VSAPI 9.311.00
Fecha de publicación de patrones OPR de VSAPI 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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