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Troj/Bancban-BQ

Aliases
  • TROJ_BANKER.GS
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.kq
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 March 2005 14:07:45 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Bancban-BQ is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bancban-BQ copies itself to the Windows system folder as svchot.exe and creates the following registry entry to ensure it is run at system logon:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
boot_reg
%SYSTEM%\svchot.exe

Troj/Bancban-BQ monitors which URLs are visited by the web browser and creates fake web pages for certain Brazilian banking sites in order to log account information. The logged information is sent to remote users via email.

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