How To Remove Ghimob Trojan From Android

Ghimob Trojan: Simple Uninstall Steps

Ghimob Trojan is a precarious computer infection that is used by cyber criminals to steal financial data, login credentials from banking-related apps, and other sensitive data. This banking Trojan usually targets Android users in Germany, Angola, Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, and some other countries. It has been found that con artists behind this hazardous threat target 153 mobile monetary applications from banks, cryptocurrency, financial technology businesses, and other exchange companies. This perilous Trojan is often distributed via spam emails and can lead to many other notorious issues like application malfunctioning, boot errors, data loss, hard drive crash, software failure and so on.

Ghimob Trojan Provides Hackers Remote Access To Infected Devices:

Ghimob Trojan can be employed by cyber offenders to gain remote access to the contaminated android phones. Without being detected by the security tools that are utilized by financial institutions to avoid online fraud, cyber crooks use the infected systems to make deceptive transactions. It is worth mentioning that the virus averts its icon from being appeared on the app drawer and can record screen lock patterns. Hence, those patterns can be employed by offenders to unlock the locked devices whenever they need to.

According to the research, scammers behind Ghimob Trojan can make fraudulent transaction to display a black screen as an overlay (or open some page in full-screen mode). That screen or a website is shown to cover the malevolent acts of making illusive transactions in the monetary app opened by the users. This hazardous threat makes spiteful entries to registry editors to create persistence and get automatically activated with each machine startup. It can provide the cyber crooks remote access to the contaminated devices using the Accessibility Mode. It can even capture data.

It is important to mention that Ghimob Trojan acquires data such as infected Android device model, a list of installed applications (with version numbers) and checks whether the phone has a screen lock activated, and sends the collected details to the attackers. This pernicious trojan also prevents victims from uninstalling it, and they also can’t restart, or turn off the compromised device due to this parasite. Information stolen by this virus could be not only employed for evil motives but also sold on darweb to other cybercriminals. And thus, an instant Ghimob Trojan removal is strongly required.

Infiltration Of Ghimob Trojan:

This pernicious infection is spread via website links attached to phishing emails sent by cyber criminals. These letters are presented as letters from banks or other monetary entities. Similar to many other Trojan viruses, it is also disguised as legitimate application. According to the research, users are attempted to be tricked by offenders into installing this parasite in disguise as WhatsApp Updater, Google Docs, Google Defender, and other legitimate apps. Remember that mobile viruses can be propagated through the Google Play store, bundled together with other infections, presented as legitimate software as well.

So, to prevent such unwanted situations, we strongly recommend against opening irrelevant emails that you obtain from unknown senders. Moreover, avoid downloading software from unreliable pages, Peer-to-Peer sharing networks and other third-party downloaders, etc. Additionally, you should keep your operating system and software up-to-dated that should be attained using executed functions or tools from the official developers. But at the moment, you must remove Ghimob Trojan from the device as soon as possible.

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 Ghimob Trojan:

Remove the related items of Ghimob Trojan 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 Ghimob Trojan 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 (Ghimob Trojan) 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 Ghimob Trojan 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 Ghimob Trojan 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 Ghimob Trojan 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 Ghimob Trojan 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 Ghimob Trojan (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.