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MXTarget

Posted: March 28, 2006

MXTarget is an adware application that shows undesirable pop-up advertisements. The threat monitors user Internet activity and transfers gathered data to a predetermined remote server. MXTarget is bundled with several advertising-supported products. It works as an Internet Explorer add-on and therefore runs every time the user opens a web browser.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 mxtarget.dll
    2 speeryox.dll

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMxTargetDll.MxTargetDllObjHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMxTargetDll.MxTargetDllObj.1HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTVX2.VX2ObjHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTsPeerDll.sPeerDllObjHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTsPeerDll.sPeerDllObj.1HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMxTargetHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwaresPeer
  • The following CLSID's were detected:
    HKEY..\..\{CLSID Path}D5E06663-DE78-4A48-BB81-7C9AFF2E49E4BBE6D461-41FC-4100-A629-B9D2162BEFAA690BCCB4-6B83-4203-AE77-038C116594ECC45C774D-5ECC-4D9E-94E1-AC57189C44354534CD6B-59D6-43FD-864B-06A0D843444A0000607D-D204-42C7-8E46-216055BF991800000097-7C67-4BA6-8B42-05128941688A
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