Sophos

Troj/YBHO-A

Aliases
  • PWS-FireMing.dll
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from November 2007 (4.23)
Protection available since 14 September 2007 03:10:52 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/YBHO-A is a password-stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/YBHO-A contains functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server.

Troj/YBHO-A is a password-stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/YBHO-A contains functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server.

When first run Troj/YBHO-A drops the following file:

<Windows>\yhelp.dll - detected as Troj/YBHO-A

Troj/YBHO-A creates the following registry entry to start itself:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Yahoo! Helper
Rundll32.exe yhelp.dll,Init

as well as a COM object and Browser Helper Object (BHO) under the following registry trees:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{E838FBB2-574D-4926-9C81-CCB15F3A3F53}
HKCR\CLSID\{E838FBB2-574D-4926-9C81-CCB15F3A3F53}

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