RiskTool.Hooker.a
Posted: February 4, 2010
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.
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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: | 4/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 665 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | December 31, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
RiskTool.Hooker.a is a malicious backdoor Trojan that sneaks in uninvited and operates in the background. RiskTool.Hooker.a steals personal information from an infected PC by monitoring the user's online activities, especially login information and credit card numbers, which are subsequently sent to a remote server for hackers. RiskTool.Hooker.a can download potentially unwanted adware programs designed to deliver various advertisements to the user's system before attempting to coax them into purchasing a malicious product. RiskTool.Hooker.a contains characteristics of an identified security risk and should be removed from the system immediately.
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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:C:\cybermgr\madCHook.dll
File name: madCHook.dllSize: 121.85 KB (121856 bytes)
MD5: 3b7e3fd1eb6b9ada3b0bb070343a2e77
Detection count: 408
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: C:\cybermgr\madCHook.dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 31, 2022
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