Spyware.Banker.FakeSig

Posted: February 12, 2013

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Threat Level:	9/10
Infected PCs:	44

First Seen:	February 12, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Spyware.Banker.FakeSig is a banking Trojan that enjoys the 'benefits' of having a valid signature and certificate – security-related identification features that appear to have been stolen from legitimate companies. Besides these means of obscuring its true intentions, Spyware.Banker.FakeSig steals bank account-related information for the purpose of conducting fraudulent financial transactions – all without any symptoms that would tip its victims off to its thefts. SpywareRemove.com malware experts rate Spyware.Banker.FakeSig as a high-level PC threat and recommend that you use powerful anti-malware applications for removing Spyware.Banker.FakeSig infections, which may be installed without any visible indications of the attack.

Spyware.Banker.FakeSig Gives You a Reason to Not Trust Everything that Your Eyes Tell You

Although Spyware.Banker.FakeSig is a malicious and illegal program, its digitally-signed certificate currently is detected as valid, which may fool many PC users into believing that Spyware.Banker.FakeSig is a normal application. This is a tactic's often abused by various types of Trojans, such as Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banbra.atfl (a similar banking Trojan) and TROJ_RANSOM.DDR (a ransomware Trojan that uses social engineering to steal money in lieu of using spyware-based attacks). Like other certificate-exploiting Trojans, Spyware.Banker.FakeSig's main aim is to steal money – specifically, by compromising any bank accounts that you access through your PC.

SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have connected Spyware.Banker.FakeSig's current distribution to fake PDF files that actually are EXE (executable file types). Launching these files will open a real PDF at the same time as Spyware.Banker.FakeSig is installed. Of course, anyone who has their file types set to be displayed and scans files prior to opening them shouldn't be threatened by this method of Spyware.Banker.FakeSig distribution.

How to Keep Spyware.Banker.FakeSig's Spying Well Outside of Your Finances

Due to the social engineering techniques that are used to misrepresent Spyware.Banker.FakeSig's Trojan dropper, SpywareRemove.com malware experts particularly caution against the opening of unusual PDFs that are linked through e-mail, instant messengers and popular social networking sites. Once Spyware.Banker.FakeSig is installed, your PC is unlikely to show any major symptoms of being infected. Spyware.Banker.FakeSig's certificate (which has not, at the time of this article's writing, been revoked) also may fool some PC security programs.

Nonetheless, adequately updated and powerful anti-malware applications should be able to delete Spyware.Banker.FakeSig – particularly if you back up your anti-malware scans with using useful security features like Safe Mode. To prevent possible account hijacks, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers also recommend that you change your account passwords after any spyware infection like Spyware.Banker.FakeSig.

Current information suggests that Spyware.Banker.FakeSig primarily is being distributed to Brazilian victims and users of Brazilian banking sites (a common theme among some prominent banking Trojans). However, attacks by Spyware.Banker.FakeSig are not hard-limited by geography and also may prove to be effective against unprotected PCs in practically any country around the globe.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:

file.exe

File name: file.exe
Size: 1.55 MB (1556096 bytes)
MD5: 9bb061ea88801f52b3fa1f266011cf76
Detection count: 68
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 14, 2013

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