Trojan.Dropper.Dapato
Posted: April 6, 2017
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.
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: | 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.exeSize: 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.exeSize: 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.exeSize: 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
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Registry Modifications
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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