Fortunately, this virus is written in a not-so-good italian so we think that the user wouldn't believe it very easily, at least in our country. The Social-Engineering approach in this case seems to be very rough and unrefined but with a better-done multilanguage approach we do think this virus could gain some good money.
Also, Ukash and paysafecard, even if they are available in Italy, are not well diffused. This, for now, could give us another passive protection from massive payments to robbers' accounts. In a news, a bit generic, of the 23rd December 2011, Ukash official site tries to beware users about possible frauds.
File name: | mahmud.exe |
Size: | 207360 byte |
MD5 | 89c7b959e1146673515a66736b1ce11b |
Compressed file format: | UPX |
File Time Stamp: | 13/03/2011 05.30.26 |
Trojan.Win32.BunPolizei.A attacks the computer in different ways wether the file has been executed with Administrator rights or not:
Case 1
Trojan.Win32.BunPolizei.A DOES NOT have Administrator rights, it edits the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
[avupdate] = %userprofile%\Application Data\mahmud.exe
Case 2
Trojan.Win32.BunPolizei.A DOES have Administrator rights, it edits the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
[Shell] = %userprofile%\Application data\mahmud.exe
Trojan.Win32.BunPolizei.A Removal
Case 1
Reboot the PC in safe mode without networking (repeatedly pressing F8 before windows boot).
Launch VirIT eXplorer and update it to 7.0.58 version or later. Close VirIT.
Re-Launch VirIT eXplorer (window's title will show 7.0.58 or later) , click on Scan->Search to perform a deep scan on the PC to remove the virus.
During VirIT scan it's possible that more than one file will be found infected by Trojan.Win32.BunPolizei.A
It is possible to manually remove the virus:
On Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003:
Delete the file: %user%\Application Data\mahmud.exe or [random name].exe
On Windows Vista/Seven/2008:
Delete the file: %user%\Appdata\roaming\mahmud.exe or [random name].exe
Launch regedit and select the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Delete the value: avupdate
Case 2
Restart the PC in safe mode with command prompt (repeatedly pressing F8 before windows boot).
If VirIT is updated it is possible to launch the scan with dos commands, alternativerly you can pass to manual removal:
PRO Version:
cd c:\viritexp
viritexp.exe
Lite Version:
cd c:\vexplite
viritexp.exe
Manual removal
It is possible to manually remove the virus by following these steps (in our case the filename is mahmud.exe):
1) From the command prompt write: regedit.exe (dopo premere invio)
2) Select the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Double click on: shell
edit: %user%\application data\mahmud.exe
in: EXPLORER.EXE
3) quit regedit
4) Delete the infected file with the following DOS commands:
on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003:
cd "Application Data"
del mahmud.exe
on Windows Vista/Seven/2008:
cd Appdata
cd roaming
del mahmud.exe
5) Restart the pc using this command:
shutdown -r -t 0
where %user% :
c:\documents and settings\<username> for Windows 2000/Xp and Server 2003
c:\users\<username> for Windows Vista/7 and Server 2008
Analysis by eng. Gianfranco Tonello
C.R.A.M. (Anti-Malware Research Center) by TG Soft
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