Troj/Cosiam-C

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Trojan
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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Troj/Cosiam-C is a proxy Trojan with backdoor capabilities.

Troj/Cosiam-C will contact a remote location in order to report details of the infected computer, including the port that the Trojan is listening on, the computer's IP and operating system. The Trojan may then download configuration data.

Troj/Cosiam-C is capable of downloading and running further executable files.

When first run, Troj/Cosiam-C will copy itself to the Windows system folder as outpostupdate.exe. In order to run automatically each time a user logs in, Troj/Cosiam-C will set the following registry entries:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
outpostupdate
<Windows system folder>\outpostupdate.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
outpostupdate
<Windows system folder>\outpostupdate.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
outpostupdate
<Windows system folder>\outpostupdate.exe

Troj/Cosiam-C creates the following registry entry:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ATI_VER

The Trojan is capable of performing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on remote computers.

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