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Adware.Webalta

Posted: February 13, 2012

Threat Metric

Ranking: 9,964
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 11,474
First Seen: February 13, 2012
Last Seen: October 8, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Webalta is a dangerous computer browser hijacker. Webalta, spawning from the potentially malicious Webalta.ru website is known for changing internet settings and web browser default home page addresses. In most cases on a PC infected with the Webalta threat, it will load up random unwanted web pages where some could be hacked to spread malware. Additionally, Webalta through the home.Webalta.ru web site, the threat could load misleading pop-up alerts and then collect user clicks to generate money for the hackers behind the Webalta scheme. Through changing settings and redirecting to unwanted sites, Webalta could render a system virtually useless for surfing the web in a normal fashion.

Aliases

Generic Malware [Panda]Generic4.CLPB [AVG]W32/Toolbar_Webalta.A [Fortinet]AdWare.Win32.Webalta [Ikarus]Win32:Ivelog-F [GData]TR/Ivelog.F.10 [AntiVir]Adware.Webalta.2 [DrWeb]Win32.TRIvelog.F [eSafe]Trojan.ADH.2 [Symantec]Win32/Adware.Toolbar.Webalta.A [NOD32]Artemis!0FCB75E9981D [McAfee]Proxy.ASMH [AVG]Backdoor.Win32.ProxyBot [Ikarus]Mal/Proxy-E [Sophos]Gen:Variant.Kazy.50862 [BitDefender]
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Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:



%APPDATA%\Adobe\sp.DLL File name: sp.DLL
Size: 96.76 KB (96768 bytes)
MD5: ae9f73df396bfbec4873567a859276da
Detection count: 19
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/DLL
Path: %APPDATA%\Adobe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 20, 2012

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%APPDATA%\WebaltaService%LOCALAPPDATA%\UpdaterPhoenixBrowser%LOCALAPPDATA%\UpdaterProBrowser%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\UpdaterProBrowser%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\UpdaterPhoenixBrowser
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