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Protect Yourself From Kovter Trojan

The Kovter Trojan is a Trojan that performs click-fraud while installed on your computer. Kovter is usually installed via exploit kits found on hacked websites and untrusted download sources. Unlike most Trojans, Kovter is stored in the system registry rather then a physical file on the computers hard drive making it harder to detect and even harder to remove. Once a computer is infected, Kovter will create various autorun entries that will start with your operating system allowing it to operate. Furthermore the registry entities that it creates cannot be viewed or altered with normal registry editing tools, like Windows Registry Editor.

What is Kovter and how to avoid it?

Kovter Trojan is an intrusive infection that causes various problems on your computer and can be extremely difficult to remove. Once it infects a computer it will write itself into the system registry and block popular registry editors from editing the strings and keys it creates inside it.
Kovter will inject your system with various processes allowing it total domination and control over a computer. It can steal your login information, credit card information, bank login details, serial numbers, keys, contacts and virtually any other piece of information you send or receive while your computer is infected making it an extremely big threat to ignore.

How to identify an infection attempt?

Once Kovter is inside your computer it will install all sorts of services that allow it to monitor, redirect and control your computer while allowing you to use it without getting suspicious. Its end goal after all is to steal as much data as possible before getting caught. In most cases you will be able to see processes in your task manager with various names, the most common of these is the “mshta.exe” process that is mainly used by Kovter. Keep a close eye on your computer resource usage, if you notice that your computer is getting slow and various processes are using your disk drive and CPU power you are mostly infected with a Trojan that is mining resources in the background. While infected some popular websites might fail to load, as Kovter tries to redirect them to various different pages that are currently unavailable. Your PowerShell might crash several times per hour due to Trojan hijacking of your Windows Computer.

How does Kovter spread?

Kovter is spread through various social media, email and social engineering techniques. The initial file size of this Trojan is extremely small making it easy to hide into any types of file without detection. It was mainly spread via email campaigns containing Microsoft office documents that contained the Trojan inside them, however it has been detected inside social media messages, program downloads and there were reports that in a few rare cases it was disguised as an image (however the image itself did not open or work). If you ever get infected make sure to change all your passwords and login details, if the Trojan managed to get a hold of your login credentials it can use your email address to further spread itself to your colleges and friends.

About Trojans


Trojans are generally spread by some form of social engineering, such as a user is tricked into opening or downloading an e-mail attachment disguised to be unsuspicious, (e.g., a routine form to be filled in), or by drive-by download. Although their payload can be anything, many modern forms act as a backdoor, contacting a controller which can then have unauthorized access to the affected computer. Trojans may allow an attacker to access users’ personal information such as banking information, passwords, or personal identity (IP address). it’s that malicious computer program which cannot be removed by any antiviruses like (malware bytes,AVG,kaspersky,etc), it can only removed by network IP address firewall. It can infect other devices connected to the network. Ransomware attacks are often carried out using a Trojan.

Steps for preventing potential Trojan attacks

The existence of any malware, especially ransomware, on your computer could substantially diminish the browsing experience, monitor your internet activities that result in critical privacy concerns, create system stability issues and eventually cause your computer to slowdown or to a practically unusable condition.

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Kovter Click Fraud Trojan

by | Mar 15, 2018 | Press Releases |

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