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Fake Anti Spyware.Anti Virus2008 Technical Details

Category

Fake Anti Spyware

Discovered

5/3/2008 1:04:00 PM

Modified

5/27/2008 12:16:00 PM

Threat Level

Critical

Description

Anti virus2008 is Rogue Security Program. It is an unwanted application. Anti virus2008 is known to be pushed/advertised by various Trojan horse programs. It uses aggressive and deceptive techniques to frighten the user into purchasing the program. It gives exaggerated report and claims of spyware found or false positives but not remove spyware unless the user purchases the program. It uses CPU 70% to 90%.

Summary

Processes

Antvrs.exe

Drivers

N/A

Folder Created

%PFDIR%\Antivirus 2008

Browsed Sites

http://videoxxx-emy.info/, http://hardpornmpg.com/, http://www.porn-toplist.com/

When the Fake Anti Spyware is executed, it creates the following files:

Name	Version	Publisher	Signature (MD5)	File Size (in Bytes)
..\antivirus 2008\antvrs.exe	1.5.7.3	Antivirus Inc.	6b02bca44e9d77b53d3f38c0df5e3a00	649216
..\antivirus 2008\antvrs.exe	1.5.8.7	AV Inc.	c6bbb8cc1144bc83b6a2dd46a35757ea	662016
..\antivirus 2008\antvrs.exe	1.5.7.3	antivirus inc.	39fef4ec5873805b1f38910a78e45c37	670208
..\antvrs.exe	1.5.8.7	AV Inc.	c6bbb8cc1144bc83b6a2dd46a35757ea	662016
..\antvrs.exe	1.5.7.3	Antivirus Inc.	39fef4ec5873805b1f38910a78e45c37	670208
..\antvrsinstall.exe	1.0.0.1		79da39ed609aa1fee26c5c36e33bd515	48128
..\atnvrsinstall.exe	1.0.0.1		e57bf698633bdb14d717224dc78418bd	53520
..\atnvrsinstall.exe	1.0.0.1		e57bf698633bdb14d717224dc78418bd	53520
..\downloaded program files \antvrs.exe	1.5.7.3	Antivirus Inc.	6b02bca44e9d77b53d3f38c0df5e3a00	649216
..\downloaded program files \antvrs.exe	1.5.7.3	Antivirus Inc.	39fef4ec5873805b1f38910a78e45c37	670208
..\downloaded program files \antvrsinstall.exe	1.0.0.1		25a44589118d90b5be73bfbd4ba68d6a	53520

When the Fake Anti Spyware is executed, it creates the following Registry entries:

•	..\software\92840577606519600235268040919888
•	..\software\antivirus
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\"antivirus"
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\"antivirus2008"
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\runonce\"3p_udec"
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\moduleusage\%ROOT%/windows/downloaded program files/antvrsinstall.exe
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\moduleusage\%ROOT%/windows/downloaded program files/conflict.1/antvrsinstall.exe
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\moduleusage\%WINDIR%/downloaded program files/antvrsinstall.exe
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\moduleusage\%WINDIR%/downloaded program files/conflict.1/antvrsinstall.exe
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shareddlls\"%WINDIR%\downloaded program files\antvrsinstall.exe"
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shareddlls\"%WINDIR%\downloaded program files\conflict.1\antvrsinstall.exe"

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