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While eliminating the threat from the Piriform network, Avast started consolidating and inspecting the Piriform infrastructure and computers, and found the preliminary versions of the stage one and stage two binary on them. “However, we now have found evidence that leads us to the assumption of what the intended third stage might have been.”

“Up until now, we have not found any third stage binary on the affected computers,” the company said.

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The malware injected into #CCleaner has shared code with several tools used by one of the APT groups from the #Axiom APT 'umbrella'. In September, Avast and Kaspersky Lab’s Costin Raiu said that they believed Chinese cyber espionage group Axiom was behind the attack. In addition to data collection, Avast said that the malware also had downloader capabilities which were active on 40 PCs.

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This is the Slim version of CCleaner v5.33 and it was affected, and I was using the application on my PC as is evidenced by the first screenshot you see here.CANCUN, Mexico – As investigations continue into a backdoor that was planted in the CCleaner utility in 2017, Avast said it has found that the threat actors behind the attack were planning to install a third round of ShadowPad malware on compromised computers.Īvast, which acquired the maker of CCleaner Piriform in July, said that it has been continually investigating the malware attack on the popular PC cleaning tool CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) since it was first revealed in September 2017. While the company has not found evidence of a third stage binary on infected computers, it has found evidence of “what the intended third stage might have been,” according to Avast speaking at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit last week.Īccording to Avast, it has found that the malware in question spread to Piriform’s build server sometime between March and July 4, 2017.Īvast in September brought the issue to light, saying that the 32-bit versions of CCleaner V and CCleaner Cloud V – which had been installed on up to 2.27 million computers – had been infected by malware collecting data such as computer names and lists of installed software and running processes. Why? Look at the screenshot below, it was taken from my 64-bit PC and it detected ccsetup533_slim.exe as Trojan.Floxif malware. Well yes, we recommend a scan just to be safe. I have a 64-bit PC, should I be concerned? Use your antivirus and a secondary scanner like Zemana Antimalware, or Malwarebytes, or Emsisoft Emergency Kit. We also recommend scanning your system for malware.

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If you have v5.33, download and install version 5.34 immediately, CCleaner Cloud version users need not worry as Piriform has already sent an auto update to fix the issue, CCleaner reportedly has 5 million new users per week, so the damage which may be caused by the malware could be enormous.Ĭheck whether you have Cleaner version. According to Malwarebytes, the infected CCleaner also checks whether the current user has admin privileges, and whether the system is a 64-bit PC.

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The infected EXEs were sending information such as the name of the PC, the list of all installed software and Windows Updates, currently running processes, and the MAC address of the 1st three network adapters. The company says it is investigating the issue. It indirectly says that 64-bit versions of CCleaner were not were not affected, (but it is not confirmed). It says that a hacker from an unknown IP address was receiving data from v5.33 of Ccleaner and CCleaner Cloud version, both of which had been modified illegally to collect data from 32-bit Windows systems. Piriform has acknowledged the issue as real, and has apologised for the same. But it is now in the spotlight for the wrong reasons.Īccording to Cisco's Talos, the installer of CCleaner, which was distributed through official download channels, on Avast's servers, was found to contain malware. The software company was recently acquired by security firm, Avast.

Piriform CCleaner is one of the most popular clean up tools used by PC users.

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