Saturday, January 24, 2009

TrafficHog Adware

Removing TrafficHog
Categories: Adware,BHO
Adware are programs that facilitate delivery for advertising content
to the user and in some cases gather information from the user's computer.

The BHO (Browser Helper Object) waits for the user to post personal information to a monitored website.
As this information is entered by the user, it is captured by the BHO and sent back to the attacker.

Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%SYSTEM%]\winalot32.dll
[%SYSTEM%]\winalot32.dll

How to detect TrafficHog:

Files:
[%SYSTEM%]\winalot32.dll
[%SYSTEM%]\winalot32.dll

Registry Keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{086cefd5-a88d-4981-8915-d51f04360ed1}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{90ccdcb0-c9e5-4dc0-b791-a1111d37af9d}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{967b8a74-4063-49ab-95d4-e3d25308ec66}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{a19ac0c8-24c1-43c9-8f7c-449e931df473}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{da8fe493-49a2-44f6-b4aa-e58cafc7ffdf}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{fab925c1-16b6-4de1-bfca-880fbeafe584}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{fb3daa1e-3236-4b43-9c19-64f57eb9c019}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\browser helper objects\{086cefd5-a88d-4981-8915-d51f04360ed1}

Registry Values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\traffichog
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\traffichog

Removing TrafficHog:

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