TrojanDownloader:MSIL/Pstinb.E
Posted: November 23, 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.
| Ranking: | 2,398 |
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| Threat Level: | 9/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 86,620 |
| First Seen: | November 23, 2015 |
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| Last Seen: | March 9, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
TrojanDownloader:MSIL/Pstinb.E is very threatening malware that may cause a huge damage to the infected PC. The Trojan doesn't represent an imminent threat to the system, but this is not good news at all. The vicious cyber threat opens backdoors, which may allow its operators to upload additional types of threats of their choice to your PC. Depending on their wishes, they may load any kind of information-collecting software, keyloggers or even tools that lock the whole machine until you pay a certain sum. All potential adverse results that you may encounter if TrojanDownloader:MSIL/Pstinb.E reaches your PC cannot be listed. What is certain is that every PC user should take proper defensive tactics to prevent the installation of the Trojan. It may be found in spam emails or infected USB flash drives. If you enter some compromised webpage, it may use corrupted scripts to load the cyber threat as well. Another common method used by the developers of TrojanDownloader:MSIL/Pstinb.E is to introduce their harmful tool as a Flash Player update, so you should download such software solely from official platforms.
The Trojan establishes a connection with remote Command and Control (C&C) servers immediately after it sneaks into the PC. One of the hosts that it connects to is pastebin.com, and the connection happens through port 80. TrojanDownloader:MSIL/Pstinb.E may inject its corrupted codes into other running processes. This activity makes it especially hard for the victim to notice anything abnormal: even if you launch Task Manager, you will notice the well-known processes of your legitimate programs. One thing that may attract your attention concerns to the Internet speed. If the transfer of data from your PC is intensive, the speed may decrease substantially. If you have any reasons whatsoever to suspect the threat may have entered, you should conduct an in-depth system scan with a powerful anti-malware application immediately.
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