Categories: Trojan

About “HostsChanger.Trojan.BAT.DDS” infection

The HostsChanger.Trojan.BAT.DDS is considered dangerous by lots of security experts. When this infection is active, you may notice unwanted processes in Task Manager list. In this case, it is adviced to scan your computer with GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

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What HostsChanger.Trojan.BAT.DDS virus can do?

Uses Windows utilities for basic functionality
The binary contains an unknown PE section name indicative of packing
The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data.
The executable is compressed using UPX
Authenticode signature is invalid
Deletes executed files from disk
Yara rule detections observed from a process memory dump/dropped files/CAPE

How to determine HostsChanger.Trojan.BAT.DDS?


File Info:
name: D27923658212138BED22.mlwpath: /opt/CAPEv2/storage/binaries/3605f165dd4fda3e04120da50f57b150d32ac92a17269757465bf982fd11660dcrc32: C4C27015md5: d27923658212138bed22b92020825e85sha1: 3e56effe6ac6d959352d4e4cbdfb2b85ddf2ec60sha256: 3605f165dd4fda3e04120da50f57b150d32ac92a17269757465bf982fd11660dsha512: e3a8730c2502debff4f8946d925b5952fab6693c46e147976c387637e9f4860089b5df24e266a9ab852cdf539864ab743d4253d9aee63da514a196dcc4377c93ssdeep: 1536:5jUyofUhuk5hFkiauE1gnouy8/xU+++++++Fs0OOMSXUuAnoB9O:5QJChFkrIout/xU+++++++fhzFtype: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windowstlsh: T10B43F102E613AF87C16C463B0C46F66ADAA2D51AAC510FB9F3ED63397F11B08464F54Csha3_384: 2ad933c79b985b9609133a0e2c32b63026c378afa6d29fdf8230163ddea1628b0c7150e9e9777a2280a2d1779505a52cep_bytes: 60be154041008dbeebcffeff5789e58dtimestamp: 2016-02-12 10:41:02
Version Info:
0: [No Data]

HostsChanger.Trojan.BAT.DDS also known as:

Bkav	W32.AIDetectMalware
Elastic	malicious (moderate confidence)
FireEye	Generic.mg.d27923658212138b
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.Riskware
McAfee	Artemis!D27923658212
Malwarebytes	HostsChanger.Trojan.BAT.DDS
K7AntiVirus	Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
K7GW	Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
Cybereason	malicious.e6ac6d
VirIT	Trojan.Win32.Atros3.EDX
APEX	Malicious
ClamAV	Win.Malware.Coinminer-9854817-0
Sophos	Generic ML PUA (PUA)
DrWeb	Trojan.Hosts.44842
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.qc
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
Emsisoft	Trojan.Generic (A)
Jiangmin	Trojan.BAT.bq
Google	Detected
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.AGeneric
Kingsoft	Win32.Troj.Undef.a
Cynet	Malicious (score: 100)
VBA32	Trojan.Hosts
SentinelOne	Static AI – Malicious PE
Fortinet	Malicious_Behavior.SB
DeepInstinct	MALICIOUS
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_60% (W)