Sophos

Troj/Lineag-CS

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 February 2008 (4.26)
Protection available since 29 November 2007 12:11:15 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

<Temp>\8da.dll
<Temp>\lkhymy.sys
<System>\kavo0.dll

The file 8da.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-CS, the file kavo0.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen and the file lkhymy.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A.

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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