TeamSpy
Posted: March 27, 2013
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 2 |
First Seen: | March 27, 2013 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
TeamSpy is a spying malware threat that is included in a cyber-espionage malware attack. TeamSpy uses legal programs together with commodity malware devices, and attacks government intelligence organizations, heavy industries and political activists in numerous countries of Eastern Europe. TeamSpy installs a legal edition of TeamViewer, a program that is used to perform remote administration, onto affected computers, and makes changes to the application with the help of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) compromising, so the targeted PC can be controlled remotely. TeamSpy may also exploit TeamViewer to install more software to gain personal information, data or files from infected PCs. Since TeamViewer is used in the malware attack, the malicious combo kit can be called TeamSpy. TeamSpy targets PDF files such as .pdf, .vmdk or .tc (disk images); office documents and files such as .doc, .mdb, .rtf or .xls; together with files having personal information such as passwords ('secret', 'saidumlo', 'napor', 'pass' or 'cekper') and encryption keys like .p12 or .pgp.
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