JAVA_ADWIND.XND

This Trojan arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Arrival Details

This Trojan arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Installation

This Trojan drops the following files:

• %User Profile%\Xnyu2m6iD4F.tmp
• %Application Data%\n1jBgVN8iF
• %Application Data%\n1jBgVN8iF\6aXaTugHik.W2wnJ
• %Application Data%\n1jBgVN8iF\Desktop.ini
• %Windows%\tem.txt

(Note: %User Profile% is the current user's profile folder, which is usually C:\Documents and Settings\{user name} on Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003, or C:\Users\{user name} on Windows Vista and 7.. %Application Data% is the Application Data folder, where it usually is C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Application Data on Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP (32- and 64-bit); C:\Users\{user name}\AppData\Roaming on Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit), Windows 8 (32- and 64-bit), Windows 8.1 (32- and 64-bit), Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012.. %Windows% is the Windows folder, where it usually is C:\Windows on all Windows operating system versions.)

Autostart Technique

This Trojan adds the following registry entries to enable its automatic execution at every system startup:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
a7xXcvBSHa = "{Java installation folder}\javaw.exe" -jar "%Application Data%\n1jBgVN8iF\6aXaTugHik.W2wnJ"

Other Details

This Trojan connects to the following possibly malicious URL:

• {BLOCKED}.{BLOCKED}.114.216