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

Tamaño del archivo 77,920 bytes
Tipo de archivo EXE
Residente en memoria No
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 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

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.750
Archivo de patrones de SSAPI: 1.615.00
Fecha de publicación del patrón SSAPI 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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