HackTool.Win32.HackAV
HackTool.Win32.HackAV or not-a-virus:Keygen (or HackTool:Win32/Keygen (Microsoft Malware Protection Center)) is the definition from Kaspersky Labs for a program designed to assist hacking. These programs often contain the signatures of potential malware, that is not dangerous by itself, but can interfere with the work on a PC, or can be used by a hacker to get some personal information from a user's computer.

According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, its first known detection goes back to July 16, 2009.

Behaviour 
This riskware is able to create license keys for illegally downloaded, non-registered software. This kind of tool may appear differently, depending on what software the tool is designed to create a key for. The following security threats were most often found on PCs that have been related to these tools:
 Blackhole exploit kit
 Win32/Autorun
 Win32/Dorkbot
 Win32/Obfuscator

Other aliases 
 RiskWare/HackAV (Fortinet)
 Troj/Keygen (Sophos)
 CRCK_KEYGEN or HKTL_HACKAV (Trend Micro)

See also 
 Dorkbot
 HackTool.AutoKMS
 iframe virus

References

External links 
 For more about this Threat, see Volume 13 of the Security Intelligence Report (.pdf download)
 Analysis of a file at VirusTotal

2009 in computing
Cryptanalytic software
Hacking (computer security)
Malware
Types of malware
Hacking in the 2000s