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Adware-Henbang

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
04/28/2005
Length
N/A
Minimum DAT
4479 (04/28/2005)
Updated DAT
5368 (08/22/2008)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/28/2005
Description Modified
12/09/2005 3:49 AM (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 Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. After executing the application no visible interface appears to indicate that some software is being installed. This application install itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for the internet explorer on execution. On browsing it may display pop ups.

Privacy :

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

Installation: 

File name: hap.dll
MD5Hash: 0563657607e71f4945a4effe32c8e8b3

File name: winhtp.dll
MD5Hash: 226a8b0fd2905bfc8d9011210d941bc5

File name: webad.dll
MD5Hash: c81cdf16ef9ca2855c4b13821fc5e76b

File name: in126.dll
MD5Hash: a2319850cc69af9ab60bf9df9709e4d1

File name: winup.exe
MD5Hash: b74a6581ae63bc76ea375a7fc83b9684

On executing the application some of the registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {3ED9FFDA-79DB-4B2D-99B7-16EA3C4A3A92}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {616D4040-5712-4F0F-BCF1-5C6420A99E14}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DownloadStart.DownloadValue
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DownloadStart.DownloadValue.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBActivex
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBActivex.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBObject
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBObject.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {1363F829-37F1-4763-9FBA-E8BB564D95EE}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {EF991B92-4308-454C-94BB-E0322A511BAB}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {315A06D6-FCA7-45EA-B77D-EE7B90041224}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {B58A1EFB-3DEE-4493-93B9-4DE3F99C8AEE}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\hap
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {3ED9FFDA-79DB-4B2D-99B7-16EA3C4A3A92}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {616D4040-5712-4F0F-BCF1-5C6420A99E14}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HAP
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\hbhelper

Following are some of the files which are dropped in windows folder:

  • c:\WINDOWS\hbsetup.log
  • c:\WINDOWS\helper.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\HHelp.dat
  • c:\WINDOWS\HHelp.dll
  • c:\WINDOWS\UNWISE.EXE
  • c:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\hbhelper.dll
  • c:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\hbhelper.inf
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hap.dll
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hap.log
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hber.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hbhsy.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hda.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hdp.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\webad.dll


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

  • Kaspersky: AdWare.Win32.Hengbang.c
  • Panda Antivirus: Adware/Hengbang
  • Symantec: Adware.Henbang

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 Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. After executing the application no visible interface appears to indicate that some software is being installed. This application install itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for the internet explorer on execution. On browsing it may display pop ups.

Privacy :

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

Installation: 

File name: hap.dll
MD5Hash: 0563657607e71f4945a4effe32c8e8b3

File name: winhtp.dll
MD5Hash: 226a8b0fd2905bfc8d9011210d941bc5

File name: webad.dll
MD5Hash: c81cdf16ef9ca2855c4b13821fc5e76b

File name: in126.dll
MD5Hash: a2319850cc69af9ab60bf9df9709e4d1

File name: winup.exe
MD5Hash: b74a6581ae63bc76ea375a7fc83b9684

On executing the application some of the registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {3ED9FFDA-79DB-4B2D-99B7-16EA3C4A3A92}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {616D4040-5712-4F0F-BCF1-5C6420A99E14}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DownloadStart.DownloadValue
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DownloadStart.DownloadValue.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBActivex
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBActivex.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBObject
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HBHelper.HBObject.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {1363F829-37F1-4763-9FBA-E8BB564D95EE}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {EF991B92-4308-454C-94BB-E0322A511BAB}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {315A06D6-FCA7-45EA-B77D-EE7B90041224}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {B58A1EFB-3DEE-4493-93B9-4DE3F99C8AEE}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\hap
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {3ED9FFDA-79DB-4B2D-99B7-16EA3C4A3A92}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {616D4040-5712-4F0F-BCF1-5C6420A99E14}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HAP
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\hbhelper

Following are some of the files which are dropped in windows folder:

  • c:\WINDOWS\hbsetup.log
  • c:\WINDOWS\helper.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\HHelp.dat
  • c:\WINDOWS\HHelp.dll
  • c:\WINDOWS\UNWISE.EXE
  • c:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\hbhelper.dll
  • c:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\hbhelper.inf
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hap.dll
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hap.log
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hber.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hbhsy.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hda.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\hdp.ini
  • c:\WINDOWS\system32\webad.dll


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