HackTool:Win32/Mailpassview

HackTool:Win32/Mailpassview is a freeware hack tool that is used to display passwords for a number of email applications. This tool is used by hackers to hack thousands of email accounts, and thus steal private info and use unsuspecting users’ accounts for mass spamming campaigns.

This hack tool was first released on October 7, 2008, and also operates under various other aliases:

Win-AppCare/Agent.89088
W32/MalwareS.WQG
Gen2.BPVYO
HackTool.Mailpassview!kmuIKt+KsCs
HackTool.IBI
TR/Agent.89088.V
Tool.PassView.13
Win32/PSWTool.MailPassView.A
PSWTool.Win32.Messen
Trojan.Win32.Generic.5209991A
NirSoft
PSWTool.Win32.MailPassView.as
MailPassView

HackTool:Win32/Mailpassview has a graphical user interface which can be run without being displayed to the targeted user. This is done by utilizing a command line which switches to save the captured password information in various other formats. HackTool:Win32/Mailpassview will show passwords to the following email applications:

Microsoft Outlook Express
Microsoft Outlook
Windows Mail
Windows live Mail
IncrediMail
Eudora
Netsace 6.x/7.x
Mozilla Thunderbird
Yahoo! Mail
Hotmail/MSN mail
Gmail

A configuration file which is named .cfg will be dropped in the folder of the mail program which is running. It also drops the file mailpv_setup.exe into the system, and users are warned to look for this file and delete if should they suspect an infiltration or infection of HackTool:Win32/Mailpassview.

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