Home / malware

PDF

Virus:Win32/Begseabug.A

First posted on 04 April 2016.
Source: Microsoft

Aliases :

There are no other names known for Virus:Win32/Begseabug.A.

Explanation :

Installation
This threat can create files on your PC, including:

• %ProgramData% \microsoft\network\downloader\qmgr1.dat
• \qqsse.dll
• \system.exe

It can make various registry changes during its installation, including:

In subkey: HKLM\Software\Google\Update
Sets value: "LastCodeRedCheck"
With data: "0x00000bc8ce82ba70"

Spreads throug...

File infection

This threat spreads by modifying files on your PC. It can do this in a number of ways, including:

• Inserting its malicious code into a clean file.
• Overwriting all or part of a clean file with its own malicious code.
• Prepending or appending malicious code to a clean file.

The malware uses code injection to make it harder to detect and remove. It can inject code into running processes.

Payload

This threat tries to stop some services from running on your PC, including:

• PolicyAgent

Additional information

Creates a mutex

This threat can create one or more mutexes on your PC. For example:

• G{B5665124-2B19-40e2-A7BC-B44321E72C4B}
• G{D19BAF17-7C87-467E-8D63-6C4B1C836373}

It might use this mutex as an infection marker to prevent more than one copy of the threat running on your PC.

This malware description was published using automated analysis of file SHA1 01f18800bc2a8822cc823de61b13ee8c23a24b5e.

Last update 04 April 2016

 

TOP