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Adware-NetPals.dr

Type
Program
SubType
Dropper
Discovery Date
03/04/2005
Length
N/A
Minimum DAT
4309 (12/17/2003)
Updated DAT
5916 (03/10/2010)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/15/2004
Description Modified
12/23/2005 10:14 PM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT™ recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

Summary

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is an adware dropper which drops adware component on the system. Upon executing this adware application, it creates BHO entries for the Internet Explorer and tries to make internet connection with “f1.organizer.com”.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No privacy policy related to the software could be found.

System Changes

File Name : mindset.exe
MD5HASH : c8d6355fb64c65d693b3181b7e057c91

File Name : npsetup.exe
MD5HASH : f09f24d61fa80ec413e5857dbb785f87

File Name : addict~1.exe
MD5HASH : bc2276ce677298d542a98a10bf59ca47

File Name : emcraft1.exe
MD5HASH : 32fc8b8349c00d169668810727a5da4b

File Name : hrlypn35.exe
MD5HASH : 5d37007a9789e6144e8b6efbfaa3b4f9

File Name : lstb4drc.exe
MD5HASH : d2381c0dcdc3bc2dbec18d9c0eccdbc1

No visible indication is given that any software is being installed upon execution of the installation program.

Following files are dropped in “%WINDOWS%\system32”:

  • ATPartners.dll
  • ddm3dia.dll
  • hrlypn35.dll
  • lstb4drc.dll
  • n3tpa1.dll
  • n3tpa1p.dll

Following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Destiny
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000EF1-0786-4633-87C6-1AA7A44296DA}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{000e7270-cc7a-0786-8e7a-da09b51938a6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\F1.Organizer
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\F1.Organizer.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NetPalIExplore.NetPal
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NetPalIExplore.NetPal.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{0CF28135-B1DC-4F50-AB58-7CF5701A6ED6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{EF100007-F409-426A-9E7C-CB211F2A9786}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{00000EF1-0786-4633-87C6-
    1AA7A44296DA}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{000E7270-CC7A-0786-8E7A-
    DA09B51938A6}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Uninstall\DMO
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Uninstall\NPO

Symptoms

N/A This is not a virus or Trojan.

Method of Infection

N/A This is not a virus or Trojan.

Variants

Variants

    N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

Aliases

  • Adware.Netpal : Symantec
  • Adware/NetPals : Panda Antivirus
  • Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.cy : Kaspersky Lab

Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) AVERT™ recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

Summary

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is an adware dropper which drops adware component on the system. Upon executing this adware application, it creates BHO entries for the Internet Explorer and tries to make internet connection with “f1.organizer.com”.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No privacy policy related to the software could be found.

System Changes

File Name : mindset.exe
MD5HASH : c8d6355fb64c65d693b3181b7e057c91

File Name : npsetup.exe
MD5HASH : f09f24d61fa80ec413e5857dbb785f87

File Name : addict~1.exe
MD5HASH : bc2276ce677298d542a98a10bf59ca47

File Name : emcraft1.exe
MD5HASH : 32fc8b8349c00d169668810727a5da4b

File Name : hrlypn35.exe
MD5HASH : 5d37007a9789e6144e8b6efbfaa3b4f9

File Name : lstb4drc.exe
MD5HASH : d2381c0dcdc3bc2dbec18d9c0eccdbc1

No visible indication is given that any software is being installed upon execution of the installation program.

Following files are dropped in “%WINDOWS%\system32”:

  • ATPartners.dll
  • ddm3dia.dll
  • hrlypn35.dll
  • lstb4drc.dll
  • n3tpa1.dll
  • n3tpa1p.dll

Following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Destiny
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00000EF1-0786-4633-87C6-1AA7A44296DA}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{000e7270-cc7a-0786-8e7a-da09b51938a6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\F1.Organizer
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\F1.Organizer.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NetPalIExplore.NetPal
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\NetPalIExplore.NetPal.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{0CF28135-B1DC-4F50-AB58-7CF5701A6ED6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{EF100007-F409-426A-9E7C-CB211F2A9786}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{00000EF1-0786-4633-87C6-
    1AA7A44296DA}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{000E7270-CC7A-0786-8E7A-
    DA09B51938A6}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Uninstall\DMO
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Uninstall\NPO

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A This is not a virus or Trojan.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A This is not a virus or Trojan.

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

    N/A