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Troj/Tibs-TZ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 7 February 2008 17:14:40 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Tibs-TZ is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Tibs-TZ includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Troj/Tibs-TZ copies itself to <Windows>\xpupdate.exe and creates the file <User>\Application Data\Install.dat.

The following registry entries are created to run Troj/Tibs-TZ on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows update loader
<Windows>\xpupdate.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
con
<pathname of the Trojan executable>

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\Install

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