Lavasoft Security Bulletin - November 2014: Top Threats

Top 20 Blocked Malware

Position Ad-Aware detection % of all threats Change in ranking
1 Gen:Variant.Graftor.164743 21.05% new
2 Trojan.HTML.Ramnit.A 6.05% +5.63%
3 Win32.Ramnit 4.94% +4.03%
4 Win32.Ramnit.N 3.35% +2.44%
5 Win32.Virtob.Gen.12 2.91% new
6 Win32.Neshta.A 1.70% +0.47%
7 Trojan.LNK.Gen 1.32% +0.88%
8 Win32.Sality.3 1.10% -2.06%
9 Gen:Variant.Kazy.290327 0.94% new
10 JS:Trojan.Script.CMP 0.85% new
11 Trojan.Peed.Gen 0.60% -24.49%
12 Gen:Variant.Graftor.107466 0.49% new
13 JS:Trojan.Script.CMO 0.45% new
14 Trojan.GenericKD.1867152 0.42% +0.11%
15 Cookie.DoubleClick 0.34% +0.03%
16 Trojan.Generic.11441324 0.34% new
17 Worm.Generic.23834 0.34% new
18 Worm.Generic.24461 0.32% new
19 Gen:Variant.Kazy.472445 0.30% new
20 Win32.Almanahe.D 0.29% new

The Top 20 malicious programs blocked on PCs

Malware Prevalence Table - November 2014

The table below ranks the most prevalent families seen by Malware Lab's analysis systems in November.

Position Ad-Aware detection % of all threats Change in ranking
1 Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.3 7.72% new
2 Adware.Linkury.M 6.98% new
3 Application.Bundler.Morstar.A 6.82% new
4 Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.45859 4.04% +0.36%
5 Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.7 3.37% new
6 Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.12 2.78% new
7 Trojan.Downloader.JRBX 2.31% -0.23%
8 Gen:Variant.Adware.Dropper.108 1.72% -6.42%
9 Trojan.Agent.BFRG 1.62% new
10 Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.19 1.55% -1.33%
11 Application.Bundler.DB 1.28% +0.23%
12 Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.153852 1.24% -1.46%
13 Gen:Variant.Adware.Netfilter.2 1.18% -1.27%
14 Gen:Variant.Adware.Linkury.1 1.10% new
15 Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.432610 0.85% new
16 Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.6 0.85% new
17 Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.45948 0.85% new
18 Gen:Heur.FKP.1 0.81% +0.03%
19 Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.20 0.72% new
20 Gen:Variant.Symmi.46589 0.67% -0.40%

New malicious programs entered the Top 20

Top 20 Potentially Unwanted Programs

Below are the Top 20 Potentially Unwanted Programs blocked by Ad-Aware on user PCs. These are advertising software, browser toolbars, search engines and other programs which change browser start pages and other system settings.

Position Ad-Aware detection % of all threats Change in ranking
1 Adware.Linkury.N 8.13% new
2 Adware.SwiftBrowse.CH 4.58% +1.67%
3 Adware.SwiftBrowse.CN 4.37% new
4 Adware.Smartbar.O 2.85% +1.93%
5 Adware.Agent.PAB 2.62% new
6 Adware.Linkury.B 2.46% -1.51%
7 Adware.BrowseFox.V 1.96% new
8 Adware.Linkury.M 1.61% +0.51%
9 Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO 1.53% new
10 Adware.NetFilter.J 1.27% new
11 Adware.SearchProtect.O 1.24% -1.55%
12 Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.25 1.11% new
13 Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.12 0.98% +0.08%
14 Adware.SwiftBrowse.CC 0.89% -6.93%
15 Adware.Mplug.DC 0.85% new
16 Adware.JS.Agent.Q 0.84% new
17 Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 0.78% new
18 Adware.Salus.E 0.72% new
19 Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.4 0.72% new
20 Adware.LuckyLeap.H 0.65% new

Top 20 PUPs detected on user PCs

Operating Systems

Infections by OS

Geographic Location

Infections by country of origin

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