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Qhost.C

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Trojan

Aliases:

  • Qhost.C
  • Qhost.C

Summary

Qhost.C, a variant of Qhost, is a Trojan. Qhost.C tries to steal confidential logon information related to Escrow.com's website.

Removal

Technical Details

Qhost.C is download from the following link:

  • https://www.angelfire.com/planet/pom0/ag[REMOVED]]t.hta

Once this malware has been downloaded and executed it will show the following message:

Qhost.C silently adds the following strings to the Windows hosts file to redirect the user from the original Escrow website to the hackers' phishing site:

  • 208.116.11.196 escrow.com
  • 208.116.11.196 i-escrow.com
  • 208.116.11.196 my.escrow.com
  • 208.116.11.196 www.escrow.com
  • 208.116.11.196 www.i-escrow.com

Qhost.C looks for the hosts file in the following locations:

  • C:\Windows\hosts
  • C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
  • C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

The phishing site looks identical to the original website, only the link is different. Here is a sample screenshot:

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