SUTRA TDS
Posted: December 24, 2011
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: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 60 |
First Seen: | December 30, 2011 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
SUTRA TDS is a browser hijacker that has been known to be used to redirect browsers to malicious websites, including sites that host PC threats such as the BlackHole Exploit Kit. Although SUTRA TDS's designer intends to make money by selling its features for a high price, criminals who purchase SUTRA TDS may use SUTRA TDS for a wide range of their own schemes, including the installation of rogue security programs, collection of ransomware-based fines or conducting widespread phishing attacks. SUTRA TDS attacks usually occur when you visit hostile sites that use iframe exploits like Exploit:HTML/IframeRef.Z; consequentially, SpywareRemove.com malware research team strongly recommends that you use protective web browser settings and keep anti-malware software on alert to prevent any SUTRA TDS as they occur. You should always respond to suspected SUTRA TDS contact by scanning your PC to detect and remove SUTRA TDS's payload, since SUTRA TDS may be complicit in the installation of Trojans, rootkits or other types of PC threats.
Why You'll Want to Disregard SUTRA TDS's Turn Signal
SUTRA TDS (AKA Sutra Traffic Direction System) is an online exploit that's sold as a product capable of handling large quantities of traffic and is primarily-hosted on Russian sites such as home-sd.com, sutbizka.ru and new-xmading.ru. Sites that use SUTRA TDS will run SUTRA TDS without your consent, and this process may display few or no symptoms other than potentially-visible redirects to unusual sites. Preventative measures that can help to stop SUTRA TDS from affecting your PC include disabling scripts from your web browser, being cautious over unusual sites (particularly those with the .ru domain suffix) and having anti-malware programs that can detect such attacks as they occur.
SUTRA TDS is strongly-associated with the following types of PC threats, which SpywareRemove.com malware experts note may be installed after any contact with SUTRA TDS-hosting sites:
- BlackHole Exploit Kits that create serious security vulnerabilities on your PC, thus softening it up to allow other PC threats to be installed.
- Common BEK payloads such as rootkits, backdoor Trojans and Trojan droppers. These types of PC threats may run automatically and without visible symptoms and are complicit in circumstances of reduced security, theft of personal information and other attacks.
- Ransomware Trojans such as those associated with a series of fake police alerts from countries such as USA, Germany, U.K. and Spain. Ransomware will attempt to disable most functions on your computer while displaying ransom messages that encourage you to spend money to unlock your PC. These messages often include fake legal notices and threats to destroy the files on your hard drive.
Making Sure You Get All of SUTRA TDS's Friends Out of Your PC
Although some possibilities within a SUTRA TDS payload, such as ransomware Trojans, can delivery very obvious symptoms, others, such as rootkits, may not show any symptoms of being active on your PC. SpywareRemove.com malware research team strongly encourages you to use appropriate software to detect and remove any PC threat that may have been installed by a SUTRA TDS exploit.
Because the latest version of SUTRA TDS, 3.4, was only identified late in December of 2011, you should also keep your anti-malware software's threat database up-to-date. Outdated databases may prevent even competent PC security programs from detecting SUTRA TDS attacks. Windows computers are more likely to be targeted by SUTRA TDS than non-Windows systems, although this shouldn't be considered tantamount to immunity for Macintosh, Linux and othersl.
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