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Troj/Dropper-SO

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Included in our products from February 2008 (4.26)
Protection available since 29 November 2007 22:34:56 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Dropper-SO is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/Dropper-SO is installed the following files are created:

<Temp>\_it.bat
<System>\drivers\symavc32.sys

The file symavc32.sys is detected as Troj/RKAgen-Fam

The file symavc32.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "symavc32", with a display name of "symavc32" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\symavc32

The file <Temp>\_it.bat is a batch file that attempts to delete Troj/Dropper-SO after the rootkit component has been installed

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