Trj/GdSda.A
Posted: July 25, 2017
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 30 |
First Seen: | July 25, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | February 18, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Trj/GdSda.A is a detection name used to label a Trojan, which may allow cyber crooks to collect data from the infected computer. This Trojan is unable to spread itself like a worm so that it relies on distribution campaigns launched by its operators primarily. The ways to spread Trj/GdSda.A are numerous, but it is likely that the cyber crooks operating this Trojan will rely on spam e-mails, infected game cracks, pirated software, and other illicit digital content. Users who end up executing this Trojan on their computers unknowingly are unlikely to notice anything suspicious at first, because this threat is meant to stay as quiet as possible while it exfiltrates data from the victim's machine.
According to an analysis performed by security researchers, Trj/GdSda.A is able to take screenshots from the user's computer, as well as to collect the login credentials used by various pieces of software automatically, which appear to be mostly FTP clients, online poker clients, and various messaging services such as the Yahoo! Messenger, MSN and others. Unfortunately, Trj/GdSda.A also is able to access the saved usernames and passwords in popular Web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer, so that this gives this threat the ability to cause quite a lot of damage if it is not stopped on time.
The data is collected over a random period quietly, and it is then transmitted to a remote Command & Control server operated by the attacker. Since Trj/GdSda.A does not display any symptoms the only way to make sure you will not have to deal with the problems it can cause is to use a credible anti-virus software suite.
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