I have 2 Trojans & Backdoor

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by redheadartist, Mar 6, 2007.

  1. redheadartist

    redheadartist Private E-2

    Hello and thank you so much for this site.

    I am one of many eBay users experiencing redirect scam problems (and others, worse) this week, but I seem to be the closest to beginning to clean it out thanks entirely to y'all and your malware guide. It's insidious as there's a keylogger involved and I never responded to pharming/redirect queries. There are at least 4 discussion forums started on this topic and staff members are directing them to my thread b/c of this progress. Possibly related horrible problems are cropping up all over eBay with hijackers. All are anxiously awaiting me to get more answers via HijackThis! log and expert advice.

    Using your malware removal procedures I found BigBlue.01 Trojan keylogger, Registry Cleaner Trojan and a backdoor.

    I have Windows XP and was running ZoneAlarm, with daily scans of AdAware, Spybot and Symantec AV when this happened. There was a ja.exe file in Quarantine before I emptied it in your instructions.

    My computer has stopped the eBay tip-off problem (redirect to pharming login page, which I never filled in). It's still running slow and being a little finicky with some scans.

    I have followed your great malware cleaning directions, stopping at the HJT log. Exceptions:
    1) CounterSpy ran great but IE froze as it was compiling a report. I jotted down most everything it caught before this luckily, so have a written record. Re-ran and got blank report which I saved.
    2) Couldn't get PandaActiveScan to run, even in regular boot mode, trying from 7a.m.to 3:30p.m. today.
    3) Have stopped before attempting HijackThis as I saw warnings about novices trying. I think I probably could follow the directions but wanted to ask you before posting with log.

    Would you like me to send what I have or retry anything differently?
    Supergratefully...
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Majorgeeks!

    In order for us to help you determine if anymore malware is still on your PC, we need the logs requested in the READ & RUN ME. Please attach the below (I'll skip CounterSpy and Panda since you had problems with them)

    • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy
    • Bitdefender - from step 6
    • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
    • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
    • HijackThis
     
  3. redheadartist

    redheadartist Private E-2

    I ran AVG AntiSpyware and had similar results as earlier attempts with CounterSpy. It ran fine and found a few things but when I clicked on Reports it said "No reports available" and blanked out the list. When it was running
    I jotted down that it found 18 objects. 15 were cookies and 3 were traces, 2 of those in Mozilla/Firefox.

    I also jotted down what CounterSpy found before IE froze (again no report as that time to IE froze). That was the scan that found BigBlue.01 Trojan, Registry Cleaner rogue security program, and Backdoor.______ (something, I didn't get the extension). When I re-ran CounterSpy after rebooting it found nothing.

    I may have done something dumb right before I got your email...I ran Spybot and it said it found Torpig in the Temp folder. I'm guessing now I should probably not run scans in between your instructions from here on out?
     

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  4. redheadartist

    redheadartist Private E-2

    HiJack Log attached.

    In case I was unclear in earlier post...AVG completed the scan and was waiting with the list still visible when I clicked on Reports. Then it said no report available.

    Hope these are right, I'm obviously new at this.
     

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  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You logs are basically clean but you need to remove the below service left over from CA Antivirus.

    O23 - Service: CA ISafe (CAISafe) - Computer Associates International, Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\isafe.exe

    Here is how to remove it!
    • Click on Start, then Run ... type services.msc into the box that opens up, and press 'OK'.
    • On the page that opens, scroll down to CA ISafe
    • then right click the entry, select Properties and press Stop Service.
    • When it shows that it is stopped, next please set the Start-up Type to 'Disabled'.
    • Click OK until you get back to Windows.
    • Next, run HJT, but instead of scanning, click on the None of the above, just start the program button at the bottom of the choices.
    • At the lower right, click on the Config button
    • Then click the Misc tools button
    • Select Delete an NT Service
    • Copy/pasteCAISafe into the box that opens, and press OK
    • If you receive any error messages just ignore them and continue.
    • Now exit HJT and reboot when it tells you it needs to.
    Also you are using Mozilla Firefox (1.0.7) which is way out of date. You should uninstall this and install the current version of FireFox from: Mozilla Firefox

    Now let's fix some other minor issues. Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixME.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.

    I do recommend that you consider doing all of the below since you indicated you had that keylogger installed and it is a password stealing trojan.


    You are strongly advised to do the following immediately:
    1. Disconnect infected computer from the internet and from any networked computers until the computer can be cleaned. If you have network compters, start checking them for problems too.
    2. Call all of your banks, credit card companies, financial institutions and inform them that you may be a victim of identity theft and to put a watch on your accounts or change all your account numbers.
    3. From a clean computer, change *all* your online passwords -- for email, for banks, financial accounts, PayPal, eBay, online companies, any online forums or groups you belong to.
    Do NOT change passwords or do any transactions while using the infected computer because the attacker will get the new passords and transaction
    information.
     
  6. redheadartist

    redheadartist Private E-2

    I will check from safe computer but I guess then I need not be concerned about that Torpig hit in Spybot? It's not mutating is it? I guess too that anyone I bring this to will know exactly what to do to clean it?

    I'm unplugging after this but I wanted to say a sincere "thank you" for your time and expertise.
     
  7. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Torpig and BigBlue.01 are the same thing. Just different scanners calling it different things. Is Spybot still detecting it? If so, attach a log that shows it. I did not notice any of the tpyical files in your GetRunKey log (if you look in the log you will see it mentions Troj-Torpig-D,E,J Keylogger was not found )
     
  8. redheadartist

    redheadartist Private E-2

    What's weird to me (if I'm following the logic) is I ran the GetRunKey log before I ran Spypot the 2nd time, the time that showed Torpig.

    If it's a system restore thing I didn't toggle that yet. I wasn't sure it was clean enough for that.

    Here's the order of what I did
    * I ran the scans listed in the malware procedures. The Spybot scan in that sequence did not show Torpig. I stopped before HJT and opened this thread.
    * In the meantime I did my daily Spybot scan on my own (sorry I complicated it by adding an extra step out of daily habit-without thinking) I didn't try to make a Spybot log for that extra scan...duh.
    * Then I received your first reply in the thread.
    * Then I ran HijackThis and emailed you all logs except that extra Spypot scan...duh again.

    Now that computer is unconnected and I have access to a 'safe' computer on weekdays, where I'm checking the thread. I've changed p/words.

    Should I reconnect the 'unsafe' computer and try to run a scan again? Not sure what to do...would Spybot still be able to get a previous log if I didn't make one before I logged off that computer? Would I have to connect to DSL and the potential risk again?
     
  9. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You don't need to connect the PC to the internet to do a scan although it would not hurt anyway. Especially since a new update for Spybot came out today. You should install this update either by online automatic update or by downloading the update and manually installing it from: Spybot Search and Destroy Update March 7, 2007

    Then run a new scan and save a log (right click in the results window when the scan finishes). Attach the log if it shows Torpig.
     
  10. redheadartist

    redheadartist Private E-2

    It looked like my computer was clean for a few days, then scans will come up infected. Last sscan, AVG Anti-Spyware, came up with Sinowal.co and KilAV.
    Clicked to remove.

    Now my symptoms are: computer is so incredibly slow.
    ZoneAlarm takes very long time to load.
    Accessing internet often fails.

    Am attaching log from AVG.
     

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  11. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    That's just in System Restore and since we never completed your cleanup, we therefore never flushed System Restore. Let's finish now (you will see step 10 below will flush System Restore):

    1. Uninstall CounterSpy if still installed.
    2. If we used Pocket Killbox during your cleanup, do the below
      • Run Pocket Killbox and select File, Cleanup, Delete All Backups
    3. If we used ComboFix you can delete the ComboFix.exe file and associated C:\combofix.txt log that was created.
    4. If we user SDFix you can delete all the SDFix related files and folders from your Desktop or whereever you installed it.
    5. If we used VundoFix, you can delete the VundoFix.exe file and the C:\VundoFix Backups folder and C:\vundofix.txt log that was created.
    6. If we had your run FixWareOut, you can delete the Fixwareout.exe file and the C:\fixwareout folder.
    7. If we had you run Avenger, you can delete all files related to Avenger now.
    8. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
    9. You can delete the ShowNew.Zip and GetRunkey.Zip files and the files that you extracted from the ZIP files. You can also delete the C:\newfiles.txt and C:\runkeys.txt logs that were created
    10. If you are running Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:
      • go back to step 8 of the READ & RUN ME to Disable System Restore which will flush your Restore Points.
      • Then reboot and Enable System Restore to create a new clean Restore Point.
    11. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
    If you are still having malware problems, please tell me exactly what they are. Slow PCs do not always mean you have malware. It could be what you are running. Some protection software programs (like Symantec and McAfee and almost all Internet Security Suites) are resource hogs.
     

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