Sophos

Troj/Tibs-UA

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Tibs.ut
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 April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 7 February 2008 21:34:49 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

When first run Troj/Tibs-UA copies itself to <System>\kernelwind32.exe and creates the file <System>\kernelw.sys.

The file kernelw.sys is detected as Troj/Tibs-TJ.

The following registry entry is created to run kernelwind32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
System
<System>\kernelwind32.exe

The file kernelw.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "Driver". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Driver

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