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Fake Anti Spyware.SystemSweeper Technical Details

Category

Fake Anti Spyware

Discovered

7/18/2008 10:29:00 AM

Modified

7/18/2008 12:09:00 PM

Threat Level

Critical

Description

SystemSweeper is Rogue Security Program. It is a Fake Anti Spyware; SystemSweeper 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. It installs without user’s consent directly.

Summary

The hosts file was updated with the following url-to-ip mappings : n/a
The following http urls were started : n/a
Generated smtp traffic : n/a
There was a new connection established with a remote IRC Server : n/a
The Following Hidden Entries Created : n/a
The following internet connection was established: n/a

Processes

N/A

Drivers

N/A

Folders created

%PFDIR%\SystemSweeper
%PFDIR% \AVM
%WINDIR%\privacy_danger
%WINDIR%\!!!

Browsed Sites

2008adults2008a.com, porntubeonlines.com

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

Name	Version	Publisher	Signature (MD5)	File Size (in Bytes)
..\systemsweeper \systemsweeper.exe			75dcba351ce53f9006340164dfbc560a	2833959
..\desktop\systemsweeper.lnk				584
..\desktop\systemsweeper.lnk				802

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

•	..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\"systemsweeper"
•	..\software\systemsweeper

Snapshot

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