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Spy-Paq

Type
Program
SubType
Discovery Date
03/09/2006
Minimum DAT
4714 (03/09/2006)
Updated DAT
5031 (05/15/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
03/09/2006
Description Modified
03/20/2006 9:53 PM (PT)

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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.

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This is not a virus or Trojan. It is detected as potentially unwanted program.

Installation:

File:    Paq_spy.exe
Hash: e9f1448fae14034a7778154a9b4f6f9c

Upon installation of this application the following changes occur in the user's system.

Registry entry added:

Following regitsty entry is added to get executed each time the machine get booted:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Run "VC_Log"- Data:%Program Files%\PaqTool\keylog\keylog.exe

Folders added:

  • %Program Files%\PaqTool
  • %Program Files%\PaqTool\keylog
  • %Program Files%\PaqTool\keylog\log
  • %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PaqTool

Files added:

  • KeyLog.exe
  • logo.avi
  • launchDll.dll
  • lteml14n.dll
  • paqlog.cfg
  • paqlog.pro
  • unins000.exe

This application is designed to capture all the keystrokes that are typed by the user.

For example: If user opens mspaint application that action is logged along with date and time as shown below.

This application is capable of sending the logged information via e-mail to specified address as shown below.

Aliases

Aliases

  • Monitor.Win32.PaqTool.a - Kaspersky