Manual Removal Guide for Stration.Warezov

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Stration.Warezov" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:

• trojan

Description:

This trojan horse adds itself to the winlogon and several system start entries. It runs in background, downloads additional programs and starts to send spam emails in background. It also adds itself to the Appinit_Dlls which causes its dlls to be loaded with every other program. A symptom is that the qtfcsu.dll failed to get loaded, this error message appears on start of every program. The added Winlogon entry is "admewinr" refering to the file "admewinr.dll" in the system directory. Removal will require to disconnect from the internet and reboot your computer, Spybot S&D will automatically rescan on system start. It is possible that another reboot is required to remove the remains of this trojan horse. For help with removal please contact Team Spybot S&D via email or forums (detections@spybot.info or forums.spybot.info).

Removal Instructions:

Autorun:

Please use Spybot-S&D, RunAlyzer or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.

• Entries named "himem.exe" and pointing to "<$WINDIR>\servsq.exe -s".
• Entries named "sdktool" and pointing to "<$WINDIR>\iexplorer.exe".
• Entries named "SoundMnEx32" and pointing to "<$WINDIR>\servsq.exe".
• Entries named "ktme" and pointing to "<$WINDIR>\ktme.exe s".
• Entries named "sygwin.exe" and pointing to "<$WINDIR>\*.exe -s".

Important: There are more autorun entries that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\e1.dll_old".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\ipxrir32.dll_old".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\con321.dll".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\con321.exe".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\dcon321.dll".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\gfr2o6.exe".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\servsq.exe".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\dxtmmnmd.dat".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\dxtmmnmd.exe".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\admewinr.dat".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\admewinr.exe".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\ktmcheck.exe".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\ktme.c".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\ktme.dat".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\ktme.exe".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\ktme.s".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\ktme.wax".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\ktme.z".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\qtfcsu.dll".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\ipxrir32.dll".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\gbrw8nl7.log".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Stration.Warezov uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

• Remove "e1.dll ipxrir32.dll qtfcsu.dll con321.dll diagisr.dll " from registry value "AppInit_DLLs" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\".
• Remove "con321.dll" from registry value "AppInit_DLLs" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\".
• Remove "diagisr.dll" from registry value "AppInit_DLLs" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\".
• Remove "g4824n.dll" from registry value "AppInit_DLLs" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\".
• Delete the registry key "msproject" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\".
• Delete the registry value "<$WINDIR>\servsq.exe" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List\".
• Delete the registry value "<$WINDIR>\servsq.exe" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List\".
• Delete the registry value "<$WINDIR>\servsq.exe" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List\".
• Delete the registry key "dxtmmnmd" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\".
• Delete the registry key "admewinr" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\".
• Delete the registry key "admewinr" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\".
• Remove "qtfcsu.dll" from registry value "AppInit_DLLs" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\".
• Remove "ipxrir32.dll" from registry value "AppInit_DLLs" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\".

If Stration.Warezov uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,

1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.