Mivast
Posted: February 26, 2015
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: | 6/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 22 |
First Seen: | February 27, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | September 26, 2018 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Mivast is classified a backdoor trojan that is known to be distributed via spam campaigns or when users download fake software updates from potentially harmful websites, for example. Typically, users get infected with a backdoor trojan such as Mivast without any sign of it. However, the main purpose of trojan infections like Mivast is to collect information on the targeted PC. In addition, Mivast and threats like it are known to be used to download further potentially malicious applications to infected machines. Mivast infection may be noticed if your computer starts running sluggishly; it starts behaving differently with apps crashing, etc. In order to remove a backdoor trojan such as Mivast, computer security experts advise using a powerful anti-malware tool that will get rid of all its components.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:setup.msi
File name: setup.msiSize: 29.34 KB (29345 bytes)
MD5: f843720743ff3b9929e10d86c4bda4f3
Detection count: 58
File type: Windows Installer Package
Mime Type: unknown/msi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 19, 2015
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