How to remove Cinobi

Tips for Cinobi removal

Cinobi is a Trojan-type malware that crooks users for various purposes, one of the primitive being the stealing banking credentials. As per researchers, the crooks mainly target Japanese banks. However, they could target any other users of other banks too. If you have any reason to think that the Banking Trojan infiltrates inside your device, you should immediately remove it.

As per researchers, the Cinobi has total two versions- one of them is designed to modify the accessed web pages and control and communicate with Command and Control server through Tor Proxy. It is one of the many programs that target stealing banking information. It can capture the credentials like usernames and passwords directly from the web browser from or website. Such data are used by the crooks to make fraudulent purchases, transactions and so on and hence there is a huge risk of privacy associated with the banking Trojan.

Also, the Cinobi can be used to perform various malicious web injection attacks. This allows the crooks to change the websites content on the victims’ side. They can use fake forms or pages and perform various malicious actions. Basically, they change the appearance of the displayed pages and/or steal identities. The victims can suffer some privacy issue, identity theft, monetary loss and other problems. Therefore, if the banking Trojan intrudes in your device, perform its immediate removal.

How did Cinobi infiltrate in my computer?

Researchers show that the cybercriminals attempt to proliferate in Cinobi using various deceptive techniques such as spam campaigns, fake software updaters, software cracks and unofficial software downloading channels. Spam campaigns are used to send malicious emails containing infectious files or links for such files, if opened – the users end up to download/install some malware in their device. Fake updaters exploit bugs/flaws created or directly download malware instead of providing update. Cracking tools cause infection by supposedly bypassing activation key for paid software. Finally, unofficial software downloading channels such as p2p networks, free file hosting sites and third party downloaders spread malware by presenting them as legit software.

How to prevent malware intrusion?

Software should be download using official websites and direct links only. Avoid all aforementioned untrustworthy downloading channels. Also, use only official software developers’ tools/functions for any software updating and activation. Moreover, it is not legal to activate licensed software with various cracking tools. Do not open any emails whose senders’ addresses seem suspicious. Also, avoid clicking on the attachments provided on such, typically spam emails lead the infection after this. For betterment, employ some antivirus tool that provides adequate protection to the device. The tool also provides time to time updates and hence helps you to updated with the latest patched programs and operating system.

Threat Summary:

Threat Name: Cinobi

Threat Type: Trojan

Description: the Trojan is a vicious computer infection that has been infected millions of Computer System all over the World.

Symptoms -Trojans are designed to stealthy infiltrate and run silently and thus no any particular symptoms are clearly visible on the infected machine

Distribution Method: phishing emails, freeware download, loading unwanted program, sharing files through network environments, and other tricky ways.

Damages -stolen passwords and banking information, identity theft and the infected system added to botnet

Removal Method: In order to remove Cinobi, users need to use some strong antimalware tool and scan the infected PC with it.

Remove Cinobi

Manual malware removal guide is provided below. Follow it so that you will not find any trouble during removal process. You can use some reputable antivirus tool to automatically remove Cinobi from the system.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Cinobi:

Remove the related items of Cinobi using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Cinobi issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Cinobi) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Cinobi removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Cinobi still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Cinobi plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Cinobi removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Cinobi (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.