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Win32/Cain

First posted on 19 April 2013.
Source: Microsoft

Aliases :

Win32/Cain is also known as CainAbel (Symantec), :HackTool/Cain.C (Panda), not-a-virus:PSWTool.Win32.Cain.284 (Kaspersky), Win32/CainAbel (ESET), PWCrack-Cain (McAfee).

Explanation :

Tool:Win32/Cain is the detection for a password recovery tool, which is capable of retrieving passwords by:

• getting cached passwords
• sniffing network packets
• cracking passwords by brute force or dictionary attacks

The user interface of Tool:Win32/Cain may look like the following:





Analysis by Francis Allan Tan Seng

Last update 19 April 2013

 

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