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Adware-Cinmus

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
11/20/2006
Length
Minimum DAT
4900 (11/20/2006)
Updated DAT
5294 (05/13/2008)
Minimum Engine
4.4.00
Description Added
11/20/2006
Description Modified
07/22/2007 8:24 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.

Upon installation, following changes occur on user's system.

The following files are created:

  • %SystemDir%\drivers\acpidisk.sys
  • %SystemDir%mscpx32r.det
  • %SystemDir%mprmsgse.axz
  • %WinDir%\Temp\~my[hexadecimal digit].tmp

The following registry keys are added:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\acpidisk
    "DisplayName" = acpidisk
    "ErrorControl" = 1
    "ImagePath" = %SystemDir%\drivers\acpidisk.sys
    "Start" = 2
    "Type" = 1
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\acpidisk
    "DisplayName" = acpidisk
    "ErrorControl" = 1
    "ImagePath" = %SystemDir%\drivers\acpidisk.sys
    "Start" = 2
    "Type" = 1
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IDSCNP
    "d" = (binary data)
    "p" = (binary data)
    "t" = (binary data)

It injects a dll into the process "Winlogon.exe" and attempts to terminate the following processes:

  • ehsniffer.exe
  • etherd.exe
  • httplook.exe
  • iris.exed
  • netxray.exe
  • sniffer.exe
  • windump.exe
  • wireshark.exe

It accesses the following site to show pop-up ads:

  • chnsystem.com

 

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Variants

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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.

Upon installation, following changes occur on user's system.

The following files are created:

  • %SystemDir%\drivers\acpidisk.sys
  • %SystemDir%mscpx32r.det
  • %SystemDir%mprmsgse.axz
  • %WinDir%\Temp\~my[hexadecimal digit].tmp

The following registry keys are added:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\acpidisk
    "DisplayName" = acpidisk
    "ErrorControl" = 1
    "ImagePath" = %SystemDir%\drivers\acpidisk.sys
    "Start" = 2
    "Type" = 1
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\acpidisk
    "DisplayName" = acpidisk
    "ErrorControl" = 1
    "ImagePath" = %SystemDir%\drivers\acpidisk.sys
    "Start" = 2
    "Type" = 1
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IDSCNP
    "d" = (binary data)
    "p" = (binary data)
    "t" = (binary data)

It injects a dll into the process "Winlogon.exe" and attempts to terminate the following processes:

  • ehsniffer.exe
  • etherd.exe
  • httplook.exe
  • iris.exed
  • netxray.exe
  • sniffer.exe
  • windump.exe
  • wireshark.exe

It accesses the following site to show pop-up ads:

  • chnsystem.com

 

Symptoms

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Method of Infection

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Removal -

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

Variants

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