Riskware/Asparnet

Analysis

Riskware/Asparnet is a highly generic detection for a set of Riskware Installers. Since this is a generic detection, malware that are detected as Riskware/Asparnet may have varying behaviour.
Below are examples of some of these behaviours:

• These are some of the illustrations we have obtained during the test for some of this Riskware samples:
  

  Figure 1: BitTorrent client.

  
  

  Figure 2: BitTorrent Toolbar.

  
  

  Figure 3: Installer.

  
  

  Figure 4: Installer.

  
  

  Figure 5: StartUp Page modification.

  
  

  Figure 6: Developer's website.

  
  

  Figure 7: Installer.

  
  

Recommended Action

• Make sure that your FortiGate/FortiClient system is using the latest AV database.
• Quarantine/delete files that are detected and replace infected files with clean backup copies.