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Troj/Bancos-CV

Aliases
  • 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 17:58:06 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Bancos-CV 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-CV copies itself to <Windows folder>\Sernet32.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run Sernet32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
sern
<Windows folder>\Sernet32.exe

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