Troj/Agent-WHZ
Posted: May 22, 2012
Threat Metric
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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: | 9/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 76 |
First Seen: | May 22, 2012 |
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Last Seen: | April 9, 2020 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Troj/Agent-WHZ is a Trojan that is included in a spam Facebook campaign related to account cancellation. The fake email that distributes Troj/Agent-WHZ asks the affected PC user to confirm account cancellation by clicking on the given link. However, the link doesn't take a PC user to an official Facebook web page, but a third-party application running on the Facebook platform, which means that the link goes to a facebook.com address, and thus, can confuse unwary online users. If a PC user clicks on the link, a message asking if he/she wants to allow an unknown Java application to run on the PC, will be shown. If a computer user hits the 'No thanks' button, a disturbing message will be continuously displayed on the screen. If a victim enables the program to run, he/she will see a message telling that Adobe Flash must be updated. The downloaded code detected as Troj/Agent-WHZ is, of course, not Adobe Flash update at all. In place of it, the software program adds extra malicious files into a /WIN32 folder, which have the purpose of permitting remote cybercriminals to spy on the affected computer user's online actions and obtain access and control over the infected machine.
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