Categories: Malware

What is “Mal/Swizzor-K”?

The Mal/Swizzor-K 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/Swizzor-K virus can do?

Behavioural detection: Executable code extraction – unpacking
Uses Windows utilities for basic functionality
Reads data out of its own binary image
CAPE extracted potentially suspicious content
The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data.
Authenticode signature is invalid
Behavioural detection: Injection (inter-process)
Behavioural detection: Injection with CreateRemoteThread in a remote process
CAPE detected injection into a browser process, likely for Man-In-Browser (MITB) infostealing
Uses suspicious command line tools or Windows utilities
Yara rule detections observed from a process memory dump/dropped files/CAPE

How to determine Mal/Swizzor-K?


File Info:
name: 060BF8BEBC7FFD961E16.mlwpath: /opt/CAPEv2/storage/binaries/822619f4ad68af04175862e65b85128d92b77e2e66168d48bcf5341752505866crc32: B0529570md5: 060bf8bebc7ffd961e16190251634e62sha1: 142589c41df4345d4a2c246f460935a0484bc56dsha256: 822619f4ad68af04175862e65b85128d92b77e2e66168d48bcf5341752505866sha512: 802089877c0f62b179cdb6ee4f4de7755800cead97eb21ec119aaa0bbc5414baf2334b0865584543d98c96e2916032aac32d503657b04a019abc27457368f304ssdeep: 12288:qkT7AfxzRZEYm0vPXYBO7sYQhBFeCEj4w8yUpRw:3QhEOj7kw8fOtype: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windowstlsh: T181C4F11E6381D032D0A952F23B2BA6B2D433AE3419255A03F7D5EF7D6E603A27917707sha3_384: 6d0f3bf4ecfe831796a18e6a14da4861d592d7c40f5452b207e518c2627b00ef56f36c88d8b67ac66a39b5bd5e67d4ffep_bytes: e8c7d4ffffe978feffff89955c040000timestamp: 2007-10-26 15:46:30
Version Info:
0: [No Data]

Mal/Swizzor-K also known as:

Bkav	W32.AIDetectMalware
Elastic	malicious (high confidence)
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen.2
FireEye	Generic.mg.060bf8bebc7ffd96
McAfee	Swizzor.gen.c
Malwarebytes	Generic.Malware.AI.DDS
VIPRE	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen.2
Sangfor	Trojan.Win32.Save.a
Cybereason	malicious.41df43
Cyren	W32/Swizzor.E!Generic
Symantec	Packed.Generic.195
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Swizzor.NCQ
APEX	Malicious
Cynet	Malicious (score: 100)
BitDefender	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen.2
NANO-Antivirus	Virus.Win32.Gen-Crypt.ccnc
Avast	Win32:Swizzor
Tencent	Malware.Win32.Gencirc.115bb3bf
Sophos	Mal/Swizzor-K
F-Secure	Trojan.TR/Dldr.Swizzor.Gen
DrWeb	Trojan.Siggen8.42998
Zillya	Backdoor.RBot.Win32.48975
TrendMicro	Mal_Swizzor
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.hc
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
Emsisoft	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen.2 (B)
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.C2Lop
GData	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen.2
Jiangmin	Trojan/Obfuscated.Gen
Webroot	W32.Malware.Gen
Avira	TR/Dldr.Swizzor.Gen
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.Swizzor
Xcitium	TrojWare.Win32.TrojanDownloader.Swizzor.Gen@1fy3o0
Arcabit	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen.2
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Obfuscated.546304.IW
ZoneAlarm	Trojan.Win32.Swizzor.b
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/C2Lop.N
Google	Detected
AhnLab-V3	Win-Trojan/Swizzor2.Gen
BitDefenderTheta	AI:Packer.2C41F0C01F
ALYac	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen.2
MAX	malware (ai score=84)
VBA32	OScope.Trojan.Win32.BagsWay.D
Cylance	unsafe
Panda	Trj/Swizzor.gen
TrendMicro-HouseCall	Mal_Swizzor
Rising	Trojan.DL.Win32.Swizzor.cx (CLASSIC)
Yandex	Trojan.Swizzor.Gen!Pac.6
SentinelOne	Static AI – Malicious PE
MaxSecure	Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen
Fortinet	W32/Swizzor.fam!tr
AVG	Win32:Swizzor
DeepInstinct	MALICIOUS
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_90% (D)