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Mal/Paymilon-A

Aliases
  • TR/Spy.Gen
  • TR/Hijacker.Gen
  • PWS:Win32/Paymilon.A
  • Infostealer
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 23 July 2009 06:04:25 (GMT)
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Action

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More Information

Mal/Paymilon-A is a malicious file for the Windows files.

Mal/Paymilon-A typically steals password information and acts as a keylogger.

When Mal/Paymilon-A is installed, some of the following files may be created:

<System>\UsrClassEx.exe
<System>\UsrClassEx.exe.reg
<System>\kklog
<Temp>\doc.exe
<Temp>\make.exe

The files make.exe, doc.exe and UsrClassEx.exe are also detected as Mal/Paymilon-A. The file UsrClassEx.Exe.reg is a clean registry file. The file kklog is a clean log of stolen data.

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

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

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