Private Exploit Pack

Posted: July 8, 2013

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.

Ranking:	16,971
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	494

First Seen:	July 8, 2013
Last Seen:	August 26, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Private Exploit Pack is a kit of configurable exploits that are used on a rental basis for infecting computers through compromised (or deliberately malicious) websites. Because Private Exploit Pack can be rented and used by any criminals willing to pay the price, the results of a Private Exploit Pack attack may vary, with possibilities including spyware, ransomware Trojans and other types of PC threats – although, in most cases, SpywareRemove.com malware experts have classified typical consequences of EK attacks as high-level security risks. Anti-malware products should be used as proper to block a Private Exploit Pack's attacks in your browser and delete the payloads of any successful Private Exploit Pack attacks, and website administrators are warned to monitor their sites regularly for attempts to insert redirects to the Private Exploit Pack's drive-by-download attacks.

Why the Private Exploit Pack Doesn't Value Your Privacy Even a Little Bit

The Private Exploit Pack is a criminal product intended to enable drive-by-download attacks, which trigger when your browser loads a malicious or compromised Web page. The Web page then loads the Private Exploit Pack, which attempts to select an appropriate vulnerability to install malware directly onto your PC. No other interaction on your part is required, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers warn that the Private Exploit Pack's attacks can take place without any visible symptoms for you to see.

The Private Exploit Pack is based on Windows but has shown a reasonable level of compatibility with all versions of that OS, including the still-fairly-new Windows 8. Many of the exploits used by the Private Exploit Pack's attacks are most effective against Internet Explorer and Opera, but other browsers – such as Chrome and Firefox – also are affected to some degree (you will be prompted to run the program, instead of the Private Exploit Pack running automatically). SpywareRemove.com malware experts currently note that the list of exploits includes Java-based vulnerabilities, Internet Explorer-specific vulnerabilities, Adobe PDF vulnerabilities and a Microsoft Data Access Components (or MDAC) vulnerability.

Keeping Your Privacy Private and Your PC Unexploited by the Private Exploit Pack

Of course, if you don't use Windows, any of the browsers mentioned above or any of the vulnerable programs listed, then the Private Exploit Pack doesn't have any avenue to attack your PC with its drive-by-downloads in the first place. In other circumstances, SpywareRemove.com malware research team strongly encourages the habitual use of anti-malware products with Web-security features that should be able to block the Private Exploit Pack's attacks as they occur. The Private Exploit Pack does use some degree of code obfuscation to hide its attacks, but updated security software should be unimpeded by these defenses.

The types of malicious software installed by the Private Exploit Pack will, according to its business model, vary with the criminals who rent its use (on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis). However, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers usually find that payloads of exploit kits like Private Exploit Pack tend to be high-level PC threats that should be removed as quickly as possible. Other exploit kits worth noting for presenting similar dangers to the Private Exploit Pack include the notorious Blackhole Exploit Kit, the Sibhost Exploit Kit, the Flimkit Exploit Kit, the Glazunov Exploit Kit, the Styx Exploit Kit, the Eleonore Exploit Kit and the Egypack Exploit Kit.

Private Exploit Pack

Threat Metric

Why the Private Exploit Pack Doesn't Value Your Privacy Even a Little Bit

Keeping Your Privacy Private and Your PC Unexploited by the Private Exploit Pack

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