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HackTool:Win32/PasswordFox

First posted on 13 December 2012.
Source: Microsoft

Aliases :

HackTool:Win32/PasswordFox is also known as not-a-virus:PSWTool.Win32.NetPass.ajt (Kaspersky), Tool.PassView.359 (Dr.Web), Win32/PSWTool.PassFox.A (ESET), HTool-PWSFFox (McAfee).

Explanation :

HackTool:Win32/PasswordFox is a free tool that is used to display the user names and passwords stored in Firefox.

It drops a configuration file named <file name>.cfg in the folder it runs from. For example, "PasswordFox.exe" drops "PasswordFox.cfg".

For each entry in Firefox, the following information is displayed:

• Record index
• Website
• User name
• Password
• User name field
• Password field

The tool may look similar to the following:





Analysis by Jingli Li

Last update 13 December 2012

 

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