Trojan: winntR1.exe, winntR2.exe, winnt2.exe, winnt3.exe, winnt4.exe, winnt5.exe, winnt.6.exe

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Virus/Trojan Summary

Name: Generic.dx!zi!1958aa4e01e3 (McAfee), Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Banload [Ikarus]

Type: Trojan virus

 

Infection Method: Email

User received email from his friend or colleague with various subject (e.g. Fotos Data: 17/06) with then content similar to below:

Imagens anexadas: DSC_252.jpg DSC_326.jpg DSC_417.jpg

User clicked and open the Hyperlink because they thought it just a photo from his/her friend.

Note: Please do not click on the jpg link above because it lead you to the actual trojan location

User just ignore the warning prompt:

2009-07-17_150349.jpg

 

User clicked on “Run”

 

Windows shown below with “Arquivo Corrompido!” mean you are infected by trojan.

 

 

Background Process after Infection:

 

You would notice the processes below in task manager:

  • winntR1.exe

  • winntR2.exe

  • winnt2.exe

  • winnt3.exe

  • winnt4.exe

  • winnt5.exe

  • winnt.6.exe

 

 

Network Activity after Infection:

 

The infected system will try spread out by sending smtp and http mail as shown below:

200.226.249.3:80

201.76.62.3:25

 

According to the user experience, the Trojan/Virus will try to spead out by sending email using user's hotmail account with the contact list in user's hotmail.

 

Registry Modification

The following Registry Key was created:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\dark

  • The newly created Registry Value in either location below is:

    • [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

    • [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

      • winntR1 = "C:\winnt_\winntR1.exe"

      • winntR2 = "C:\winnt_\winntR2.exe"

      • winnt2 = "C:\winnt_\winnt2.exe"

      • winnt3 = "C:\winnt_\winnt3.exe"

      • winnt4 = "C:\winnt_\winnt4.exe"

      • winnt5 = "C:\winnt_\winnt5.exe"

      • winnt6 = "C:\winnt_\winnt6.exe"

 

 

File System Modifications:

 

The following directory was created:

c:\winnt_

 

 

Removal Method:

 

Note: The trojan might affected to the particular user only

  1. Login as the user name that infected by the Trojan

  2. Kill (End Task) all the process start with winnt*.exe in task manager

  3. Empty Internet Temporary files.

  4. Delete all the winnt* entries in the registry key below: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

  5. Delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\dark in the registry

  6. Restart the computer

  7. Login in as administrator

  8. Delete “c:\winnt_” folder

  9. Download and run the removal tool from http://normanasa.vo.llnwd.net/o29/public/Norman_Malware_Cleaner.exe (This tools only able to remove certain infected files only. That’s the reason we have to do some manual clean up before running this tool.)

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winnt* virus

Hi derrickw,
thank you for sharing your clear instructions on removing this virus, it worked very well for me and it was easy.
only thing i had trouble with was knowing WHERE/HOW to type regedit in the command prompt as i am not very good at computers and did not know where to look for the registry.
I have Windows Vista.
have a great day !

Regedit for Windows Vista Home Edition

 I believe you must be using Windows Vista Home Edition. You can check out the following website to enable the regedit:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/116415-regedit-enable-disable.html

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