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HackTool:Win32/BrowserPassview

First posted on 15 February 2019.
Source: Microsoft

Aliases :

There are no other names known for HackTool:Win32/BrowserPassview.

Explanation :

This is a tool that is used to retrieve passwords stored in your web browser's cache.

The tool shows your user names and passwords for websites that you have saved in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and Sea Monkey:

The tool can also be run in hidden mode and can put the passwords it finds into a text file.

We have seen the following malware use this tool to steal passwords:

Backdoor:Win32/Fynloski.A PWS:MSIL/Petun.A Trojan:Win32/Sercgov.A TrojanSpy:MSIL/Golroted.A VirTool:Win32/VBInject VirTool:Win32/VBInject.RT VirTool:Win32/VBInject.gen!BP

Analysis by Mihai Calota

Last update 15 February 2019

 

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