Mal/CoreFlood-A

Category: Viruses and Spyware Protection available since:10 Feb 2010 02:22:03 (GMT)
Type: Malicious behavior Last Updated:10 Feb 2010 02:22:03 (GMT)
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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Mal/CoreFlood-A is a malicious executable that typically drops some of the following files:

<Temp>\<random filename>.dll
<System>\<random filename>.dil
<System>\<random filename>.ocx
<System>\<random filename>.dat (multiple dropped)

The .dll, .dil and .ocx files are also detected as Mal/CoreFlood-A, while the .dat files are clean data files.

Registry entries of the following form are created in order to run the malware on startup:

HKCR\CLSID\{<random GUID>}\InprocServer32
(default)
<System>\<path to malicious executable>

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