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Troj/Bancos-CU

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banpaes.m;
  • PWS-Banker.gen.b
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 24 May 2005 13:35:32 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
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Action

More Information

Troj/Bancos-CU is a password-stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bancos-CU steals confidential information relating to certain online banking applications by displaying fake login screens and sends stolen information to a remote user.

When first run Troj/Bancos-CU copies itself to <Windows>\Aslru.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
asl
<Windows>\Aslru.exe

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