ALIASES:

PWS:Win32/Nemim.A (Microsoft)

 PLATFORM:

Windows

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

  • Threat Type: Spyware

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted: Yes

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

Infection Channel: Dropped by other malware, Downloaded from the Internet

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

It connects to certain websites to send and receive information.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size: 465,624 bytes
File Type: EXE
Memory Resident: Yes
Initial Samples Received Date: 28 Mar 2013
Payload: Connects to URLs/IPs

Arrival Details

This spyware 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 spyware adds the following mutexes to ensure that only one of its copies runs at any one time:

  • 920111215

Information Theft

This spyware gathers the following data:

  • Computer name
  • Username
  • CPU information
  • OS Version
  • Network adapter information
  • Stored passwords in browsers and browser versions:
    • Internet Explorer
    • Firefox
    • Chrome
  • Stored email accounts and vesions of email applications:
    • Outlook Express
    • Windows Mail
    • Windows Live mail
    • MS Outlook
  • Stored messenger passwords and their versions:
    • MSN Messenger
    • Google Talk
    • Windows Live Messenger
  • Other stored accounts and their versions:
    • Gmail Notifier
    • Google Desktop

Other Details

This spyware connects to the following website to send and receive information:

  • http://{BLOCKED}rmi.eu.pn/html/docu.php
  • http://{BLOCKED}raw.{BLOCKED}geremy.info/html/docu.php
  • http://{BLOCKED}rix.{BLOCKED}hosting.info/html/docu.php

It does the following:

  • It checks if the stolen information is from any of the following loaded pages:
    • http://twitter.com
    • http://facebook.com
    • http://passport.yandex.ru/passport
    • http://www.yandex.ru
    • http://qip.ru
    • http://mail.qip.ru
    • https://login.nifty.com/service/login
    • http://e.mail.ru/cgi-bin/login
    • http://mail.ru
    • http://mail.126.com
    • http://secure.zapak.com/mail/zapakmail.php
    • https://lavabit.com/apps/webmail/src/login.php
    • http://www.bigstring.com
    • http://www.gmx.com
    • http://passport.sohu.com/indexaction.action
    • http://www.sohu.com
    • https://www.zoho.com/login.html
    • http://mail.sina.com.cn
    • http://members.sina.com/index.php
    • http://www.care2.com/passport/login.html
    • http://www.mail.com/int
    • https://fastmail.fm/mail
    • https://www.inbox.com/login.aspx
    • http://www.gawab.com
    • http://mail.163.com
    • http://registration.lycos.com/login.php
    • http://www.mail.lycos.com
    • https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/login/login.psp
    • https://edit.bjs.yahoo.com/config/login
    • https://login.yahoo.co.jp/config/login
    • https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2
    • https://login.live.com/login.srf
    • https://www.google.com/accounts/servicelogin

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine: 9.700

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

Restart in normal mode and scan your computer with your Trend Micro product for files detected as TSPY_NEMIM.A. 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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