Worm.Fakerecy.A
Posted: December 30, 2010
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: | 9/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 548 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | September 6, 2021 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Worm.Fakerecy.A is a computer worm parasite that has the ability to spread onto various locations of the hard drive. Worm.Fakerecy.A may load at startup of Windows where it tends to populate certain directories all without notification to the computer user. The risk of confidential information and stored files being compromised is present while Worm.Fakerecy.A is able to masquerade without the administrator taking actions to remove it.
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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%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ctfmon.exe
File name: ctfmon.exeSize: 20.48 KB (20480 bytes)
MD5: 6daa78a9eb057c7b5e692456082909b4
Detection count: 23
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: May 8, 2013
C:\Users\<username>\Documents\TUSARCHIVOS\Recycled\ctfmon.exe
File name: ctfmon.exeSize: 40.96 KB (40960 bytes)
MD5: 8a8d59918cbfa19e5856e0f0ee4fa42d
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\TUSARCHIVOS\Recycled\ctfmon.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: June 30, 2022
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ctfmon.exe
File name: ctfmon.exeSize: 20.48 KB (20480 bytes)
MD5: 6c4b9b79650d57008e04cfe167219b47
Detection count: 12
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 18, 2020
%SystemDrive%\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ctfmon.exe
File name: ctfmon.exeSize: 20.48 KB (20480 bytes)
MD5: c802a1caa850ff692e698ac65aa4f5e8
Detection count: 9
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %SystemDrive%\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 24, 2013
%WINDIR%\system\lsass.exe
File name: lsass.exeSize: 109.56 KB (109568 bytes)
MD5: e39ea6529daa365436fa025ae334f630
Detection count: 9
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %WINDIR%\system
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 22, 2012
%USERPROFILE%\Menu Start\Programy\Autostart\ctfmon.exe
File name: ctfmon.exeSize: 20.48 KB (20480 bytes)
MD5: 6b5706e7570dce28a82c972651005b45
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %USERPROFILE%\Menu Start\Programy\Autostart
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 17, 2013
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