CXmal/DNSCha-A
Posted: April 27, 2012
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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.
| Ranking: | 2,557 |
|---|---|
| Threat Level: | 2/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 61,040 |
| First Seen: | April 27, 2012 |
|---|---|
| Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
CXmal/DNSCha-A detects registry modification made by a class of DNSChanger Trojans such as Troj/DNSChan-A. CXmal/DNSCha-A will only start from a full system scan, either scheduled or on-demand. If your endpoint is not set up to use DHCP, manual cleanup, changing the DNS server settings, is required. You should manually change your DNS settings You refer to the proper server for your organization or ISP. CXmal/DNSCha-A may reset the DNS name server setting on windows computer for various network interfaces on the host computer.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
The following newly produced Registry Values are:
HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\\NameServer HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run hgqhp.exe = C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgqhp.exeHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{2861B0F9-F1E8-4A1A-B9D5-08FB3E595B28} NameServer: 85.255.115.101,85.255.112.115HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{92A284E9-43B2-406E-A24E-FCB05ACBAD8B} NameServer: 85.255.115.101,85.255.112.115
HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\
Additional Information
The following URL's were detected:
ckk.ai
When a Cleaner is use it will detect bokren files in the registry though when a program is install it makes diferent copies in diferent sub folders of the registry so you can manually look for them if you know the file name or program name in the registry window . open registry editor by typing regedit in the registry window click on computer to select it and in the tab edit click Find and type the name of the program or file tyopu are looking for the when you delete press F3 to continue to look furter more until no more copies of the file or program is found, though I must tell you this is very delicate process and you should know exactly what you R looking for otherwise you may make it worse. so I sujest if the CCleaner have a way to back up the registry . do it before you start deletions of registry values.