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Fake Anti Spyware.AntivirusXP2008 Technical Details

Category

Fake Anti Spyware

Discovered

7/3/2008 10:01:00 AM

Modified

7/3/2008 11:29:00 AM

Threat Level

Critical

Description

Antivirus XP 2008 is Rogue Security Program. It is a Fake Anti Spyware. Antivirus XP 2008 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 will not remove spyware unless the user purchases the program.

Summary

The hosts file was updated with the following url-to-ip mappings : n/a
The following http urls were started :
www.download.windowsupdate.com
Generated smtp traffic : n/a
There was a new connection established with a remote IRC Server : n/a
The Following Hidden Entries Created :
hidden file: %SYSDIR%\kdssf.exe
The following internet connection was established:
78.108.178.39:80(network.upl.cz)
204.16.204.56:80
85.255.117.114:80

Processes

antivirusxpinstaller.exe

Drivers

mickey32.sys , Xfhd24.sys

Folders created

%PFDIR%\iSecurity
%PFDIR%\iSecurity\Antivirus XP 2008

Browsed Sites

www.picsteen.org

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

Name	Version	Publisher	Signature (MD5)	File Size (in Bytes)
..\quick launch \antivirus xp 2008.lnk				1534
..\antivirus xp 2008.lnk				1516
..\antivirus xp 2008.lnk				1522
..\desktop\antivirus xp 2008.lnk				1746
..\antivirus xp 2008.lnk				1668

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

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