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Troj/Maran-AW

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Maran.ie
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 August 2007 (4.20)
Protection available since 4 July 2007 07:28:08 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Maran-AW is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Maran-AW includes functionality to download, install and run new software.

When Troj/Maran-AW is installed the following files are created:

<Windows>\svchost.exe - detected as Troj/Maran-AW.
<System>\delmeml.bat - may be safely deleted.
<System>\tj9viewer.dll - detected as Troj/Maran-AW.

The file <Windows>\svchost.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "ADIDown", with a display name of "Power Adapter" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ADIDown

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