Analysis by: Rhena Inocencio
ALIASES:

not-a-virus:PSWTool.Win32.IEPassView.fm (Kaspersky), PasswordRevealer (Symantec), Riskware/IEPassView (Fortinet), a variant of Win32/PSWTool.IEPassView.NAE potentially unsafe (ESET)

 PLATFORM:

Windows

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Hacking Tool

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted: Yes

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This hacking tool may be manually installed by a user.

It uses a user interface (UI).

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size: 137,808 bytes
File Type: EXE
Memory Resident: No
Initial Samples Received Date: 01 Jun 2016

Arrival Details

This hacking tool may be manually installed by a user.

Other Details

This hacking tool uses the following user interfaces (UIs):

It does the following:

  • This tool is capable of listing stored passwords from Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
  • It displays the following information for each list of passwords:
    • accessed website
    • password type
    • storage location
    • username
    • password

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine: 9.800

Step 1

Before doing any scans, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 users must disable System Restore to allow full scanning of their computers.

Step 2

Identify and terminate files detected as HKTL_PASSVIEW.GB

[ Learn More ]
  1. For Windows 98 and ME users, Windows Task Manager may not display all running processes. In this case, please use a third-party process viewer, preferably Process Explorer, to terminate the malware/grayware/spyware file. You may download the said tool here.
  2. If the detected file is displayed in either Windows Task Manager or Process Explorer but you cannot delete it, restart your computer in safe mode. To do this, refer to this link for the complete steps.
  3. If the detected file is not displayed in either Windows Task Manager or Process Explorer, continue doing the next steps.

Step 3

Scan your computer with your Trend Micro product to delete files detected as HKTL_PASSVIEW.GB. If the detected files have already been cleaned, deleted, or quarantined by your Trend Micro product, no further step is required. You may opt to simply delete the quarantined files. Please check this Knowledge Base page for more information.


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