Categories: SpyTrojan

How to remove “Trojan.GoldenSpy”?

The Trojan.GoldenSpy 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 Trojan.GoldenSpy virus can do?

  • SetUnhandledExceptionFilter detected (possible anti-debug)
  • Attempts to connect to a dead IP:Port (1 unique times)
  • Creates RWX memory
  • Possible date expiration check, exits too soon after checking local time
  • Dynamic (imported) function loading detected
  • Performs HTTP requests potentially not found in PCAP.
  • Network anomalies occured during the analysis.
  • Enumerates running processes
  • Expresses interest in specific running processes
  • Repeatedly searches for a not-found process, may want to run with startbrowser=1 option
  • Reads data out of its own binary image
  • CAPE extracted potentially suspicious content
  • Authenticode signature is invalid
  • Deletes its original binary from disk
  • A process attempted to delay the analysis task by a long amount of time.
  • Network activity contains more than one unique useragent.
  • Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup
  • Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup

How to determine Trojan.GoldenSpy?


File Info:

name: 84FF122838C0DA5AB5DD.mlwpath: /opt/CAPEv2/storage/binaries/885d24d927df6fbc26122975f6ce7ff7b75823e6dafd8137a4e892bac9adce1fcrc32: 0ABD306Bmd5: 84ff122838c0da5ab5ddcaa8f45f7011sha1: 62c57392c0e18b713b76b9084e09eb1f0ef8333asha256: 885d24d927df6fbc26122975f6ce7ff7b75823e6dafd8137a4e892bac9adce1fsha512: 16699a48ce810f4b23db9575c312d87317e5a2ddeb8113afc29bdcbeaa6b836a73b76b6fc8124c47c3a9357e8e0f5a0e598843ca85b103da6a0f7e6c05219fd5ssdeep: 12288:4MBBXM05pWpYu5MD/cAvHekgyq1yS3M8uXztceYzVTk8p2saMnLTk8p2saMnk:4MBZd5pWpN5M7oyONuXbYZTHTgtype: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windowstlsh: T1D4E4236612C080BED5A444789E7DE736CFFB1181A31D159E934F8CF53A72C2A2F89B19sha3_384: 69900f59ba0e61c3a17946066b5de65efebf4976de211830e47fac91423794278b3b321da0ec876258eae807eb75ea84ep_bytes: 81ec8001000053555633db57895c2418timestamp: 2009-06-18 21:33:23

Version Info:

0: [No Data]

Trojan.GoldenSpy also known as:

Bkav W32.AIDetect.malware2
Lionic Trojan.Win32.Goldenspy.4!c
Elastic malicious (high confidence)
DrWeb DLOADER.Trojan
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.42974804
FireEye Trojan.GenericKD.42974804
ALYac Backdoor.Agent.Vigorf.A
Cylance Unsafe
Sangfor Trojan.Win32.Agent.UEL
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Alibaba Trojan:Win32/GOLDENSPY.3a995c49
K7GW Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
K7AntiVirus Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
BitDefenderTheta Gen:NN.ZexaE.34638.ZuW@aiTK3tfi
Cyren W32/Trojan.JDWJ-1832
Symantec Backdoor.Goldenspy
ESET-NOD32 Win32/Agent.UEL
APEX Malicious
Paloalto generic.ml
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.42974804
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Generic.hsfkbs
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.42974804
Sophos Mal/Generic-R
TrendMicro Backdoor.Win32.GOLDENSPY.YPAH-A
McAfee-GW-Edition Trojan-FRWL!134D9FFC9C65
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.42974804 (B)
Ikarus Trojan.Dropper
Jiangmin Trojan.Agentb.ldb
Webroot W32.Malware.Gen
Avira TR/Dropper.Gen
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.S.Agent.696722
GData Trojan.GenericKD.42974804
Cynet Malicious (score: 100)
AhnLab-V3 Dropper/Win32.GoldenSpy.C4148224
McAfee Artemis!84FF122838C0
MAX malware (ai score=99)
VBA32 Trojan.Agentb
Malwarebytes Trojan.GoldenSpy
Rising Trojan.Occamy!8.F1CD (CLOUD)
Yandex Trojan.Agent!EUvUn3WmSv4
SentinelOne Static AI – Suspicious PE
Fortinet W32/Agent.UEL!tr
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
Panda Trj/CI.A

How to remove Trojan.GoldenSpy?

  • 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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