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Fake Anti Spyware.PC-Cleaner Technical Details

Category

Fake Anti Spyware

Discovered

3/26/2008 3:56:00 PM

Modified

5/7/2008 11:14:00 AM

Threat Level

Critical

Description

PC-Cleaner is rogue Security Program. PC-Cleaner 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.

Summary

Processes

N/A

Drivers

N/A

Folder Created

%PFDIR%\PC-Cleaner

Browsed Site

http://bignastyworld.info/, http://zonevipxxx.info/

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

Name	Version	Publisher	Signature (MD5)	File Size (in Bytes)
..\com\pcsd.dll			e87c046d8e08d8b60397a201487d6775
..\com\pcsd.dll			83c3904f8515204f721d688f20f0d7ed	253952
..\com\pcsd.dll			a6bb07748951ddd733cf18c6980dc513	266240
..\pc-cleaner\pc-cleaner.exe			07360231650ac250081816b13cf5f041
..\pc-cleaner\pc-cleaner.exe	2.0.2.1	PC-Cleaner.com	55672dc912f0cd8692b67790cad5e71d	1351680
..\pc-cleaner\pc-cleaner.exe	2.0.2.1	PC-Cleaner.com	db2d8f444d471d3db75ffc5908087ff7	1351680
..\desktop\pc-cleaner.lnk				1486
..\pccleaner_installer_eng.exe			9bc6ced30dfda80fa3cf102c714aff3a	180381

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

•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\"pc-cleaner"
•	..\software\pc-cleaner
•	..\software\classes\allfilesystemobjects\shellex\contextmenuhandlers\pcsd
•	..\software\classes\clsid\{10f0c2a9-8e38-43e3-204d-45524c494e20}
•	..\software\classes\clsid\{1d9cfbb1-19da-4edb-b368-4598d439afe0}
•	..\software\classes\clsid\{5fe53d1b-59f9-48f4-8094-47211bb778b3}
•	..\software\classes\clsid\{8bd58549-bb16-480e-8530-3f957ae09b51}
•	..\software\classes\clsid\{e4631d31-888a-44f2-98d0-e90c219a800a}
•	..\software\classes\clsid\{ee9598b0-2e2f-4658-bb64-10b7a253bc14}
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shell extensions\approved\"{26457167-fd54-4cd7-b44f-9210e1296805}"
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shell extensions\approved\"{5fe53d1b-59f9-48f4-8094-47211bb778b3}"
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shell extensions\approved\"{e4631d31-888a-44f2-98d0-e90c219a800a}"
•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\pc-cleaner
•	..\software\pc-cleaner

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