Sophos

Troj/Lineag-BE

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from October 2007 (4.22)
Protection available since 6 September 2007 05:16:29 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Lineag-BE is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Lineag-BE copies itself to <Program Files>\Windows NT\services.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\f5lcmh0.sys - detected as Mal/RootKit-A
<Temp>\vnzn.dll - detected as Mal/EncPk-AH.
<System>\ACE.dll - detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen.

The following registry entry is changed to run Troj/Lineag-BE on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\userinit.exe,<Program Files>\Windows NT\SERVICES.EXE,

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