How To Remove FFDroider Stealer Trojan

Simple Guide To Uninstall Malicious Software

FFDroider Stealer is a newly-discovered Trojan-type infection. It can manipulate system processes and even hijack them so that it would be very hard to spot the existence of the malware while it is damaging the compromised device. In general, it is used to steal sensitive data from the infected PCs. The Trojan type pests are regarded as the worst PC threats. Many cyber criminals make use of such infections to carry out a variety of malicious tasks. It in general is employed to extract information from popular social medial and e-commerce websites.

Threat Details

Name: FFDroider Stealer

Class: Trojan

Features: Steals personal and sensitive data in general

Danger level: High

Infiltration tactics: Spam email and their malevolent attachments

Symptoms: Stolen data, slow computer performance, etc.

FFDroider Stealer: Depth Analysis

FFDroider Stealer attempts to avoid being detected by disguising itself as the Telegram messenger. It can be accountable for the stealing of Internet cookies and saved log-in credentials from the web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge, Explorer, etc. Hackers behind this nasty parasite can target Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts, as well as eBay, Amazon and Etsy e-commerce platforms. Furthermore, threat actors can also try to get their hands on WAX Cloud digital wallet credentials. This hazardous parasite can also be employed to steal users’ personal information, and payment related info from the Facebook Ads manager.

With FFDroider Stealer in your system, your other private data such as email address, userID, phone number, etc. can also be extracted from your Instagram accounts. Having acquired such information, cyber crooks can ask the friends/contacts/followers for loans or donations in disguise of real owner. Besides, they can use the financial related accounts, e.g., e-commerce platforms and digital wallets to make fraudulent transactions and unauthorized purchases. Therefore, if this dreadful cyber pest is running in the background of your computer, you may suffer from serious privacy issues, significant monetary losses, and even identity fraud. Hence, take an immediate action and remove FFDroider Stealer from the PC once and for all.

Distribution Of Trojan Horses:

Trojan-type programs are generally spread via the spam emails and their malicious attachments. These phishing mails are sent in tens of thousands in a large-scale campaign and typically include the malware payloads. As soon as the recipients get tricked into downloading and opening the attached vicious file (e.g., MS Office or PDF documents, executables, JavaScript, archives, etc., they end up contaminating their systems with the dreadful virus. Thus, we strongly recommend against opening the irrelevant email attachments without scanning it with a trusted security suite. Also, always have an up-to-date security app installed and implement regular system scans.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is FFDroider Stealer a dangerous infection?

It’s a Trojan horse and such parasites are considered as highly dreadful because of their versatile nature. This particular one is generally employed to steal personal and sensitive data from infected systems and therefore, may lead to a number of unkind issues.

How to avoid getting infected?

If you don’t want to get contaminated by such hazardous pests, make sure you are very watchful while browsing the internet. Choose official or reliable sites only to download programs or files and stay away from suspicious online content, irrelevant emails, etc.

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 FFDroider Stealer:

Remove the related items of FFDroider Stealer 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 FFDroider Stealer 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 (FFDroider Stealer) 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 FFDroider Stealer 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 FFDroider Stealer 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 FFDroider Stealer 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 FFDroider Stealer 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 FFDroider Stealer (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.