Sophos

Troj/Lineag-BU

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-BU is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Lineag-BU copies itself to <System>\kavo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\7zwx9.dll
<Temp>\w7.sys
<System>\kavo0.dll

The file kavo0.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen and the file w7.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A. The file 7zwx9.dll is also detected as Troj/Lineag-BU.

The following registry entry is created to run kavo.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
kava
<System>\kavo.exe

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