Symptoms

Removal instructions:

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Technical Description:

    When started, the malware drops the files spmyaapi.sys and mpmycapi.dll  and creates a copy of itself named simyaapi.exe in %windir%\system32\. Note that these files are hidden. It then loads the new copy and the original file is deleted.

    mpmycapi.dll is registered using the following keys:

•  HKCR\CLSID\{3629FF4F-ACDB-5C90-A098-FACB3456A263}\InporcServer32\(Default) =   "%windir%\system32\mpmycapi.dll"
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• HKCR\CLSID\{3629FF4F-ACDB-5C90-A098-FACB3456A263}\InporcServer32\ThreadingModel = "Apartment"
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• HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks\{3629FF4F-ACDB-5C90-A098-FACB3456A263} = "mpmycapi.dll"
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• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{3629FF4F-ACDB-5C90-A098-FACB3456A263}\(Default) = "mpmycapi.dll"
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    This dll is used to steal account information from players of a mmorpg game. Once loaded into a process, the dll takes one of the following actions (depending on the process name):

• if the process is named soul.exe it creates a thread which monitors keystrokes to steal information, which is then sent to a specific location on the internet
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• if the process is named play.exe the path of the process is used to delete %process path%\ini\GameSetUp.ini and %process path%\TQAT\*.exe
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• if the process doesn't have one of the above names, it tries to infect other started processes and refreshes the registry entries
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    When the malware is ran for the first time simyaapi.exe is used to load the first instance of mpmycapi.dll. Afterwords, it is loaded at starup.