Trojan.SpyEye
Posted: June 11, 2010
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
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 |
|---|---|
| Infected PCs: | 1,775 |
| First Seen: | November 30, 2010 |
|---|---|
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Although the spyware known as SpyEye has existed for quite some time, SpyEye is currently experiencing a boom due to newfound access to malicious coding functions originating from the Zeus Trojan. As an extremely sophisticated threat, SpyEye can infect innocent memory processes and override many security features of your PC. The final goal for SpyEye is to steal personal information like passwords and online banking information, and you should do your best to remove SpyEye before engaging in any behavior that transmits sensitive information through your computer.
SpyEye is a Spy that's Closer to Home Than You'd Think
Many SpyEye infections originate from Russia, but this spyware's major distribution methods tend to obscure this, in any case. Currently spam emails are the main delivery method, with SpyEye being served to unsuspecting victims through fake Internal Revenue Service and Nike product order messages. One such variant even has a fake digital signature for its attachment, which makes SpyEye even harder to detect until it's too late.
SpyEye may be identified by the names of PWS-Spyeye.e Trojan.Gen.2, Mal/SpyEye-I, Trojan-Spy.Win32.SpyEyes.fsr, Trojan-Spy.Win32.SpyEyes.fui and various other titles. All versions of SpyEye are designed with the intent of stealing private information, and may record keystrokes, take screen captures and otherwise secretly monitor information.
SpyEye employs several different advanced defenses to prevent users from detecting or removing SpyEye:
- Packing techniques shrink SpyEye to a small file size and prevent anti-malware programs from noticing SpyEye until the SpyEye's already installed.
- Heavy use of encrypted code makes SpyEye more difficult to detect even after installation and obscures SpyEye's functions from casual analysis by code divers. Executable code is also divided up between components in a non-intuitive fashion, making it difficult for users to delete SpyEye manually.
- SpyEye will corrupt running processes, starting with explorer.exe and continuing onwards with almost every other process. This lets SpyEye run without being detected in Task Manager and makes SpyEye extremely difficult to shut down once launched. Only basic system processes and csrss.exe, smss.exe and services.exe are exempt from the SpyEye infection.
- Newer variants of SpyEye can restore lost portions of the infection if any individual 'appendages' are hacked off anti-spyware programs. This is accomplished by a hooking engine that lets SpyEye immediately regenerate lost components.
- Rootkit-based tactics let SpyEye hide all of SpyEye's major file components as well as SpyEye's Registry entries.
Why You Should Poke SpyEye's Eye Out
As a basic function, SpyEye will collect system information like the user's account name, the Windows build number, certain aspects of the contents of the Windows folder and various other baseline identifying traits.
SpyEye also has a configuration file that may be altered with different types of malicious plugins. This can be used to steal credit card information or account passwords, monitor online activities in general, alter the display of online content and otherwise perform highly malicious actions. Since the exact plugins used may vary between different versions of SpyEye, the only real certainty is that having this spyware on your PC means that you have zero security or privacy.
Since SpyEye is designed to hide SpyEye's presence and does so extremely well, the easiest way to deal with SpyEye is to avoid getting infected at all. If you've opened a suspicious file recently and are experiencing any symptoms of malware infection, it's imperative that you use good anti-malware applications to identify and remove SpyEye or other hidden PC threats. Remember that since SpyEye can recover from incomplete deletion attempts, you need to remove the entire malicious program at one go - an action that can normally only be accomplished by equally advanced anti-malware programs.
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Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:C:\erppdfwdfg.exe
File name: erppdfwdfg.exeSize: 483.32 KB (483328 bytes)
MD5: 698dd7ba29b57d426eabfe6ed38687b3
Detection count: 95
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\erppdfwdfg.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 9, 2010
C:\cxlacuxatx.exe
File name: cxlacuxatx.exeSize: 324.6 KB (324608 bytes)
MD5: 013cbeefde8d028c907d3312ce147b14
Detection count: 91
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\cxlacuxatx.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 5, 2011
C:\explorrxxx.exe
File name: explorrxxx.exeSize: 163.32 KB (163328 bytes)
MD5: 7c913041b2502c91f1743194ffe1fcff
Detection count: 68
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\explorrxxx.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 21, 2010
C:\jdsfjsdijf.exe
File name: jdsfjsdijf.exeSize: 196.6 KB (196608 bytes)
MD5: 1e51dcf7e47d2f4b1ab60a670260ad5e
Detection count: 65
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\jdsfjsdijf.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 21, 2010
C:\driverswyn.exe
File name: driverswyn.exeSize: 637.44 KB (637440 bytes)
MD5: 659c0fd8b930ccf7b20a9956be502b79
Detection count: 60
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\driverswyn.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 17, 2010
C:\akhdfiusdf.exe
File name: akhdfiusdf.exeSize: 322.04 KB (322048 bytes)
MD5: 665d2550a9b9e747dc68c1af54d6376c
Detection count: 37
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\akhdfiusdf.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 1, 2010
C:\cleanitxxx.exe
File name: cleanitxxx.exeSize: 326.14 KB (326144 bytes)
MD5: 8c82645339c2aec169519190e15db82d
Detection count: 28
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\cleanitxxx.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 1, 2010
C:\ugsoacgsco.exe
File name: ugsoacgsco.exeSize: 158.2 KB (158208 bytes)
MD5: 9b818706dc2b6265123405707662f208
Detection count: 16
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\ugsoacgsco.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 1, 2010
C:\CIAxxxxxxx.exe
File name: CIAxxxxxxx.exeSize: 267.26 KB (267264 bytes)
MD5: af133675e4250f50aa76e9fea4c1ec32
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\CIAxxxxxxx.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 1, 2010
C:\iuoidiosri.exe
File name: iuoidiosri.exeSize: 197.12 KB (197120 bytes)
MD5: 20f8d672977e6e866f9a28a68df1284c
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\iuoidiosri.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 23, 2010
C:\horhorhorh.exe
File name: horhorhorh.exeSize: 166.91 KB (166912 bytes)
MD5: f4215b56ddaf34685125af945d618b7d
Detection count: 10
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\horhorhorh.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 6, 2010
C:\poihshhshs.exe
File name: poihshhshs.exeSize: 275.45 KB (275456 bytes)
MD5: f40d1d2c5ab67001390898828b35f89b
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\poihshhshs.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 24, 2011
C:\ajndufhiad.exe
File name: ajndufhiad.exeSize: 305.15 KB (305152 bytes)
MD5: 9dff77bd5cf89c0a26acc05aa63f6d0a
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\ajndufhiad.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 30, 2010
C:\ieksplorer.exe
File name: ieksplorer.exeSize: 353.28 KB (353280 bytes)
MD5: 3632bfd26e576fb5dbf663b1c88cb271
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\ieksplorer.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 28, 2010
C:\yahoosetul.exe
File name: yahoosetul.exeSize: 219.64 KB (219648 bytes)
MD5: 29f6c634687fd8cb399e1b49f31dcc39
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\yahoosetul.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 30, 2010
C:\blockentxx.exe
File name: blockentxx.exeSize: 418.3 KB (418304 bytes)
MD5: 06bd8ce05149677776d65d25ce27ab69
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\blockentxx.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 9, 2010
C:\cleenprogx.exe
File name: cleenprogx.exeSize: 240.12 KB (240128 bytes)
MD5: 3b2ca89b27fba959579a2036904d337b
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\cleenprogx.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 28, 2010
C:\bootstartx.exe
File name: bootstartx.exeSize: 327.16 KB (327168 bytes)
MD5: 775b72ba3949dd0ff8e4255aeb9a436d
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\bootstartx.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 2, 2011
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