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Bat/LoseSlp-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 12 November 2007 20:00:57 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Bat/LoseSlp-A is a multi-component BAT script which spreads by copying itself to removable devices as the files win.bat and win.vbe.

Bat/LoseSlp-A creates the following files:

<Windows>\inf.tem - detected as Bat/LoseSlp-A
<Windows>\sleep.vbe - detected as Bat/LoseSlp-A
<Windows>\uishere-1.txt - innocuous file
<Windows>\win.bat - detected as Bat/LoseSlp-A
<Windows>\win.vbe - detected as Bat/LoseSlp-A
C:\autorun.inf - detected as Bat/LoseSlp-A
C:\win.bat - detected as Bat/LoseSlp-A
C:\win.vbe - detected as Bat/LoseSlp-A

Bat/LoseSlp-A creates the following registry entry to run itself on system restart:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
vbe
<Windows>\win.vbe

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