Categories: Malware

About “Mal/Cerber-Z” infection

The Mal/Cerber-Z 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 Mal/Cerber-Z virus can do?

  • Injection (inter-process)
  • Injection (Process Hollowing)
  • Executable code extraction
  • Creates RWX memory
  • Reads data out of its own binary image
  • Drops a binary and executes it
  • Executed a process and injected code into it, probably while unpacking
  • Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup
  • Creates a copy of itself
  • Collects information to fingerprint the system
  • Anomalous binary characteristics

How to determine Mal/Cerber-Z?


File Info:

crc32: 8A4E9AE3md5: 9eb95a98db35de596cf0453e2c25cd95name: 9EB95A98DB35DE596CF0453E2C25CD95.mlwsha1: 0643b9c8251436b23428fcfb2933cc30bfc4df49sha256: b69e7b8ba03f2bc8cf4001ab271bbc6e93db31fc86eda83e3f32a71ffb00f7bbsha512: ad262c1e07e54883b271543b40e0e2d27a63f73b2b439ceee8998649478cdc8b6c7a79d639a99455b4e4194229f5478a3a928954bc537a1f376c0bf9dc2ad5b7ssdeep: 12288:FDOgvlimfM7WJGstWZrGef5jvXpLmPh997wd0/cMUPL2u/VdGvZdCgrpGyogELxO:FDjyWXonf57VmZLi8cMWTdOOgUfgWotype: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows

Version Info:

LegalCopyright: FileVersion: 2.5.4.3CompanyName: Adobe PDFProductName: Adobe PDFProductVersion: 2.5.4.3FileDescription: Translation: 0x0000 0x04e4

Mal/Cerber-Z also known as:

Bkav W32.AIDetect.malware2
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0055e3991 )
Lionic Trojan.NSIS.Onion.j!c
DrWeb Trojan.Inject2.1233
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.2671192
CAT-QuickHeal Ransom.Crowti.NSIS.A
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.2671192
Zillya Trojan.Onion.Win32.380
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_90% (D)
K7GW Trojan ( 0055e3991 )
Cybereason malicious.8db35d
Symantec ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
ESET-NOD32 Win32/Filecoder.CTBLocker.A
APEX Malicious
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
Cynet Malicious (score: 99)
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.2671192
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Inject.dvrllt
Tencent Nsis.Trojan.Onion.Hyab
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.2671192
Sophos Mal/Cerber-Z
Comodo Malware@#1b5db6a0ychqk
BitDefenderTheta Gen:NN.ZedlaF.34790.aO4@aenuRA
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
TrendMicro TROJ_CRYPCTB.CE
McAfee-GW-Edition RDN/Ransom.e
FireEye Generic.mg.9eb95a98db35de59
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.2671192 (B)
SentinelOne Static AI – Suspicious PE
Webroot W32.Trojan.GenKD
Avira HEUR/AGEN.1141672
eGambit Generic.Malware
Kingsoft Win32.Troj.Generic_a.a.(kcloud)
Microsoft Ransom:Win32/Critroni
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D28C258
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
GData Trojan.GenericKD.2671192
AhnLab-V3 Spyware/Win32.Fareit.C2385813
McAfee RDN/Ransom.e
MAX malware (ai score=83)
VBA32 Hoax.Onion
Panda Trj/CI.A
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_CRYPCTB.CE
Yandex Trojan.Injector!R0MbG6MyyYw
Ikarus Trojan-Spy.Agent
Fortinet W32/CHID!tr
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
Paloalto generic.ml

How to remove Mal/Cerber-Z?

  • Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
  • Open GridinSoft Anti-Malware and perform a “Standard scan“.
  • Move to quarantine” all items.
  • Open “Tools” tab – Press “Reset Browser Settings“.
  • Select proper browser and options – Click “Reset”.
  • Restart your computer.
Paul Valéry

I'm a cyber security analyst and data science expert with 5+ years of experience with security software contractors.

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