Sophos

Troj/Lineag-CL

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 December 2007 (4.24)
Protection available since 31 October 2007 05:24:00 (GMT)
Last updated 31 October 2007 20:42:08 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

<Temp>\8wphdue.dll
<Temp>\b.sys
<System>\kavo0.dll

The file kavo0.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen, the file b.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A and the file 8wphdue.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-CL.

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

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

RSS|Atom
Get reports about the latest virus and spyware threats delivered to your computer