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Trojan.Dropper.Dapato

Posted: April 6, 2017

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 8/10
Infected PCs: 15,528
First Seen: August 5, 2011
Last Seen: November 8, 2024
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Trojan.Dropper.Dapato is a Trojan that may not show any visible signs of this presence. This is because the name of the program is associated with a low-level Trojan whose purpose is to launch hidden instances of the default system Web browser, and then use them to load pre-defined advertisements and pages. This way, the people behind Trojan.Dropper.Dapato may end up making money by utilizing the hardware and network resources of random users who ended up running Trojan.Dropper.Dapato on their computers.

Judging by the name used to store the Trojan on the victim's machine, Trojan.Dropper.Dapato attempts to impersonate the popular remote desktop program TeamViewer. Users who have it on their computers might not suspect that there is something fishy about Trojan.Dropper.Dapato, and they might end up lending their computer's hardware to paid advertising campaign of a cyber crook unknowingly.

Trojan.Dropper.Dapato adds Registry entries that are meant to ensure that the program will persist through events such as a computer restart, shut down or crash. This might make the manual removal of Trojan.Dropper.Dapato a bit tricky task that requires users to tamper with the Windows Registry. This is why the recommended way to remove Trojan.Dropper.Dapato is to run an anti-malware scanner that will identify and erase all files and Registry entries linked to Trojan.Dropper.Dapato.

Technical Details

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:



%APPDATA%\spoolsc.exe File name: spoolsc.exe
Size: 285.4 KB (285406 bytes)
MD5: 3b4372705a7e7bb21a570a33a145e26b
Detection count: 58
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %APPDATA%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 1, 2017
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\file.exe File name: file.exe
Size: 31.23 KB (31232 bytes)
MD5: 54bad3613bdf02e3ba1375c9b047e1b6
Detection count: 57
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 1, 2018
%TEMP%\domain\wdacl.exe File name: wdacl.exe
Size: 168.9 KB (168904 bytes)
MD5: 6fbd102b5a0a4753ac9cf0554324f0cd
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%\domain
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 1, 2017

More files

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathnew folder .exeRegexp file mask%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\tw[NUMBERS].exe%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\TeamViewer_Tracer.exe%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\tw[NUMBERS].exe%APPDATA%\Adobe\HostService.exe%APPDATA%\serviceapp.exe%APPDATA%\Smart Security\smartsecurity.exe%APPDATA%\Win Update.exe

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