Trojan.Dropper.FB

Short bio

Trojan.Dropper.FB is Malwarebytes detection name for a family of Trojans that are pretending to be Facebook installers and updaters.

Type and source of infection

Downloaders and droppers are helper programs for various types of malware such as Trojans and rootkits. They don’t carry any malicious activities by themselves, but instead open a way for attack by downloading/decompressing and installing the core malicious modules. To avoid detection, a dropper may also create noise around the malicious module by downloading/decompressing some harmless files.

Protection

Malwarebytes blocks Trojan.Dropper.FB

Home remediation

Malwarebytes can detect and remove Trojan.Dropper.FB without further user interaction.

1. Please download Malwarebytes to your desktop.
2. Double-click MBSetup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
3. When your Malwarebytes for Windows installation completes, the program opens to the Welcome to Malwarebytes screen.
4. Click on the Get started button.
5. Click Scan to start a Threat Scan.
6. Click Quarantine to remove the found threats.
7. Reboot the system if prompted to complete the removal process.

Business remediation

How to remove Trojan.Dropper.FB with the Malwarebytes Nebula console

You can use the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Nebula console to scan endpoints.

Nebula endpoint tasks menu

Choose the Scan + Quarantine option. Afterwards you can check the Detections page to see which threats were found.

On the Quarantine page you can see which threats were quarantined and restore them if necessary.