Lavasoft Security Bulletin - May 2014: Top Threats

Top20 Blocked Malware

Position Ad-Aware detection % of all threats Change in ranking
1 Win32.Trojan.Agent 66.35% -8.24%
2 Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 20.66% +5.98%
3 Exploit.PDF.Pdfjs.aei 2.84% new
4 Virus.Win32.Ramnit.a 1.46% +0.79%
5 Worm.LNK.Jenxcus.aha 0.66% +0.09%
6 Malware.JS.Generic 0.54% -0.12%
7 Trojan.Win32.Ramnit.c 0.50% +0.38%
8 Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra 0.42% -0.28%
9 Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 0.35% +0.04%
10 Virus.Win32.Ramnit.b 0.33% new
11 HackTool.Win32.Keygen 0.33% -0.27%
12 Virus.Win32.Sality.at 0.32% -0.09%
13 Email-Worm.Win32.Brontok.a 0.26% new
14 Virus.Win32.Sality.ek 0.24% new
15 Trojan.Win32.Jpgiframe 0.22% -0.10%
16 Virus.Win32.Virut.ce 0.21% new
17 FraudTool.Win32.FakeVimes!VB 0.20% new
18 Trojan-Clicker.HTML.Iframe 0.19% new
19 Win32.Worm.Autorun/A 0.18% new
20 Virus.Win32.Expiro.cn 0.16% new

The Top 20 malicious programs blocked on PCs

Malware Prevalence Table - May 2014

The table below ranks the most prevalent families seen in May.

Position Ad-Aware detection % of all threats Change in ranking
1 Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 33.79% -0.08%
2 Virus.Win32.Virut.ce 6.72% +0.01%
3 Virus.Win32.Expiro.gen 5.82% -1.70%
4 Trojan-Downloader.Win32.LoadMoney.u 4.59% -0.57%
5 Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra 2.81% -0.20%
6 InstallCore 1.75% +0.93%
7 Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 0.83% +0.06%
8 Trojan.Win32.LoadMoney.f 0.78% +0.44%
9 Trojan.Win32.Ircbot!cobra  0.73% -0.13%
10 Worm.Win32.Picsys.c 0.49% new
11 Adware.OutBrowse 0.49% -0.09%
12 Optimum Installer  0.48% -0.05%
13 Conduit 0.48% new
14 Click run software 0.40% -0.07%
15 Vittalia Installer  0.39% new
16 Trojan.Win32.DelfInject.m 0.31% -0.05%
17 Trojan.StartPage 0.27% +0.05%
18 Worm.Win32.Gamarue.z 0.25% +0.04%
19 Backdoor.MSIL.Bladabindi.a 0.23% +0.03%
20 FraudTool.Win32.InternetProtection.ek!a  0.18% -0.03%

New malicious programs entered the Top 20

This month we discovered several new Fake-AVs that have GUIs similar to the ones below. One of them – “Open Cloud AV” - even utilizes a cloud security concept.

Fake AV (MD5: 1c01c7a1c0d18c376d295522f096a5cb) is detected by Ad-Aware as Gen:Variant.Kazy.73805

Fake AV (MD5: 5deeff05129a1d4aaf5bac9091d9058f) is detected by Ad-Aware as Trojan.Generic.KD.369558

Fake AV (MD5: 6882c02d396d287ddfb3717bb717bead) is detected by Ad-Aware as Trojan.FakeAlert.CYD

Top20 Potentially Unwanted Programs

Below are the Top20 Potentially Unwanted Programs blocked by Ad-Aware on user’s 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 Conduit 19.38% +2.56%
2 MyWebSearch 15.30% -1.77%
3 Win32.PUP.Bandoo 12.33% -2.01%
4 Adware.JS.Conduit 8.31% -0.88%
5 Adware.Linkury 7.36% -1.85%
6 Yontoo 3.41% +2.71%
7 Crossrider 2.25% +0.29%
8 Montiera 1.68% +1.04%
9 Adware.SaveSense 1.61% -0.91%
10 Win32.Toolbar.Iminent 1.56% -0.16%
11 DomaIQ 1.34% +0.11%
12 Adware.Win32.Multiplug.c 1.32% -0.06%
13 BetterInstaller 1.10% new
14 Win32.Adware.Agent 1.07% +0.32%
15 Iminent 0.99% -0.73%
16 SweetIM 0.82% -0.13%
17 Opencandy 0.78% -0.02%
18 Adware.DealPly 0.77% -0.24%
19 InstallCore.b 0.76% +0.07%
20 InstallCore 0.75% -0.07%

Top20 PUPs detected on user’s PC

Operating Systems

Infections by OS

Geographic Location

Infections by country of origin

We will keep investigating the epidemiological situation in the world and informing our readers about new malicious code samples in the next Lavasoft Security Bulletin.

Read also:
Lavasoft Security Bulletin - May 2014: Bot Review.
Kelihos Adopts Anti-Analysis Technique.

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