Sophos

Troj/Lineag-BT

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 November 2007 (4.23)
Protection available since 14 September 2007 19:42:19 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

<Temp>\9j2u.sys
<Temp>\ac5ig.dll

The file 9j2u.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A. The file ac5ig.dll is also detected as Troj/Lineag-BT.

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

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

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