recent trojan attack

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by cenfin, Nov 28, 2013.

  1. cenfin

    cenfin Private E-2

    Hi all,

    I was recently hit by a nice little trojan that had my IP address black listed. I found the virus and cleaned pc, well think I have. I also had black list removed.

    The main problem I have now is that I have found that all PDF and microsoft documents have been corrupted. Unfortunately I also had my backup hard drive connected to the system at the time, and all backups of my files have also be affected.

    I have been running "Mcafee as a service" as protection.

    I am looking for some assistance on 2 points,
    1. to make sure my system is clean
    2. to try and recover document files if at all possible.

    I have ram HiJackthis and the results are below


    I hope someone can help on both the cleaning of the machine and the recovery of the data files.

    cheers
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Nov 28, 2013
  2. Kestrel13!

    Kestrel13! Super Malware Fighter - Major Dilemma Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

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  3. cenfin

    cenfin Private E-2

    thanks, I am starting the process now.
     
  4. cenfin

    cenfin Private E-2

    I have followed the procedures as best as possible. I hope I have done it correctly as I have been working on this problem now for over 9 hours straight, and it is a lot of new information to absorb in a short period of time.
    My apologies if I have done something out of order.

    I have attached x2 log files RKreport and the Hitman report. Is there any other information you require ?

    I look forward to your guidance.

    Dazza
     

    Attached Files:

  5. Kestrel13!

    Kestrel13! Super Malware Fighter - Major Dilemma Staff Member

    I still need to see logs from Malware Bytes and MGTools please. :)
     
  6. cenfin

    cenfin Private E-2

    HI I trust I have done the right thing. Please see the attached files. I assume the MGZip file has all the data you require logs and other pc data.

    If not please let me know.

    Thanks again fro your time, I do appreciate it

    Dazza
     

    Attached Files:

  7. Kestrel13!

    Kestrel13! Super Malware Fighter - Major Dilemma Staff Member

    Hi Dazza,

    Please re run Hitman and have it delete all of the Potential Unwanted Programs.



    http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/9659/rktigzy.gif Fix items using RogueKiller.

    Double-click RogueKiller.exe to run. (Vista/7 right-click and select Run as Administrator)
    When it opens, press the Scan button
    Now click the Registry tab and locate these 3 detections:

    • [V1][SUSP PATH] Dealply.job : C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Roaming\Dealply\UPDATE~1\UPDATE~1.EXE - /Check [x] -> FOUND
    • [V2][SUSP PATH] Dealply : C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Roaming\Dealply\UPDATE~1\UPDATE~1.EXE - /Check [x] -> FOUND

    Place a checkmark each of these items, leave the others unchecked.
    Now press the Delete button.
    When it is finished, there will be a log on your desktop called: RKreport[2].txt
    Attach RKreport[2].txt to your next message. (How to attach)
    Reboot the machine.


    Delete the below:
    • C:\ProgramData\Babylon
    • C:\ProgramData\DSearchLink
    • C:\ProgramData\ErrorEND6
    • C:\Users\Darren\AppData\Roaming\Dealply

    Reboot the machine again, navigate back to where those folders were, are they still gone?

    Explain how things are running.
     
  8. cenfin

    cenfin Private E-2

    HI Kestrel13!,

    Thanks again for your help. I do appreciate your effort and time involved with my case.

    Ran Hitman and followed its recommendations for deletion of programs reg entry's etc.
    I have attached multiple Rk logs, as I have ran the program as you instructed and then afterwards.

    I deleted the V1 and V2 lines in reg detection.

    I also checked for any traces of Babylon, DsearchLink and ErrorEND64. When found there were deleted also. or almost for got also Dealply.

    Machine is clean of them.

    does this mean that machine is fully clean of Virus and malware ?

    Do you know if there is any way of fixing/repairing damaged files from the trojan attack ? mainly the mircosoft office files and PDF files ?

    I believe I do have a backup which is 2 months old. But a lot has taken place in 2 months.

    Prior to this attack I would have all current working data on a secondary had drive in pc. then back up thios data to a usb hardrive. Unfortunately I was hit withe trojan when all were connected to the system at the same time.

    After speaking to some of my clients (IT support/provider companies) they have suggested having data on a NAS (with backup app running) taking snapshot of info onto attached USB hard drive. This si what and how they have recovered all their clients that have had simular attacks.

    As I have this company and another (running soft copy of all records) I really need to have a fail proof engineered system to back ups, for both machines but most importantly the data.

    I would be very interested in what you would recommend. Using a cloud provider is out of the questin due to the amount of data, currently only 1tbit but due to expand to 4 tbit over the next 18 months.

    Your guidance and advice would be greatly appreciated.


    Sorry, machine performance...it has been fine, even with virus infection... but it is a high spec machine. I do notice a lot of svhost.eve (currently 11 with out pc doing anything except browser connection) processes running but then again I am still getting used to win 7 and its requirements compared to XP. This seems high to me. What are your thoughts ?

    On another subject I have a laptop that seems to have issues but will try some basic stuff first before wasting your time with it.

    Is there any other information that you require, or feed back ?
    If there is a way of recovering office and PDF files, I would very much appreciate knowing how, as it would save me a lot of work, in fact at least a week.


    Kind regards,



    Dazza
     
  9. Kestrel13!

    Kestrel13! Super Malware Fighter - Major Dilemma Staff Member

    Hi there Dazza, only malware removal is deal with in this forum. The questions you have about the corrupted pdf's etc and the other things you are asking about can all be further discussed in the software forum, so feel free to post there! :)

    Here's an interesting article about scvhost and multiple instances of it.




    If you are not having any other malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:
    1. We recommend you keep Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware.
    2. Renable your Disk Emulation software with Defogger if you had disabled it in step 4 of the READ & RUN ME.
    3. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis. If you don't see it or it will not uninstall, don't worry about it. Just move on to the next step.
    4. If running Vista, Win 7 or Win 8, it is time to make sure you have reenabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
    5. Now goto the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click ( if running Vista, Win7, or Win 8 Right Click and Run As Administrator ) on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.
    6. Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.

    7. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
     

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