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Mal/HckPk-A

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Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from June 2007 (4.18)
Protection available since 17 January 2007 15:33:17 (GMT)
Last updated 18 April 2007 10:23:51 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

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Mal/HckPk-A is a program that has been packed with a protection system typically used by malware authors.

Various malware families are detected as Mal/HckPk-A, including the following:

several mass-mailing worms such as the W32/Dref family (for example W32/Dref-Y)
aggressively spammed out Trojans (for example Troj/Dorf-Fam)
network worms with backdoor functionality (for example several members of the Rbot family)

In addition, a variety of files on malicious websites are detected as Mal/HckPk-A.

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