Sophos

Troj/PWS-APP

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 3 January 2008 09:09:16 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/PWS-APP is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run the Trojan copies itself to <System>\avpo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\5d5rlo.dll - detected as Troj/PWS-APP.
<Temp>\lj6t.sys - detected as Mal/RootKit-A.
<System>\avpo0.dll - detected as Troj/PWS-APP.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
avpa
<System>\avpo.exe

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