Grunt Trojan

Grunt description
Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Search.203,Grunt.473,Grunt.529;
[Panda]Direct.gen,Grunt.473,Iron Umbrella,Grunt-4;
[Computer Associates]Grunt 203,Grunt.473

Categories:Trojan,Backdoor,Downloader,Hacker Tool,DoS

Platforms / OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

How to detecting Grunt:

Search Files on the disk:
[%PROFILE_TEMP%]\asmfiles.cab
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Altnet\Download Manager\asmps.dll
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\audio.xsd
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\document.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\image.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\image.xsd
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\rom.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\rom.xsd
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\video.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\video.xsd
[%PROFILE_TEMP%]\asmfiles.cab
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Altnet\Download Manager\asmps.dll
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\audio.xsd
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\document.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\image.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\image.xsd
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\rom.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\rom.xsd
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\video.xml
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Morpheus\Schemas\video.xsd

Search Folders on the disk:
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\altnet
[%WINDOWS%]\temp\altnet

Search registry keys in system registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{b7156514-a76c-4545-9d5b-a4e1d02c7aec}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{582ab125-1403-42fb-9efb-198690ba1496}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\topsearch.tslink
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\topsearch.tslink.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{bff4f684-677e-44f4-8c74-1d575c950e10}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{edd3b3e9-3ffd-4836-a6de-d4a9c473a971}

How To Remove Grunt:

You must download ExterminateIt. It can detect Grunt and prevent infection.

You can run trial version of ExterminateIt to detect,and then remove Grunt manually.

  1. Use Task Manager to terminate the Grunt process.
  2. Delete the original Grunt file and folders.
  3. Delete the system registry key parameters

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