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Meplex

Posted: March 28, 2006

Meplex is a typical adware application designed to serve unsolicited commercial advertisements. The threat also creates few desktop icons with Chinese characters. It does not have any additional functionality. Meplex automatically runs on every Windows startup.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 inet.exe
    2 msser.exe
    3 mstunint.dll
    4 mstunmsk.dll
    5 mstunmsr.dll
    6 mstuntsk.dll
    7 task.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftTunlHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunmsserHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciesExplorerRuniis
  • The following CLSID's were detected:
    HKEY..\..\{CLSID Path}DE60714F-AC17-427e-861A-FD60CBDF119A
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