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Troj/Banker-CA

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 8 April 2005 03:43:24 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Banker-CA is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run, Troj/Banker-CA copies itself to the Windows system folder as mailman.exe and creates the following registry entry in order to run each time a user logs on:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
mailman.exe
"<Windows system folder>\mailman.exe"

The Trojan searches the titles of all open windows for any of the following texts:

'Banco Rural - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'Banco Nossa Caixa S.A. - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'Banco Santander - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'B A N R I S U L - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'Caixa Econmica Federal - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'[bb.com.br] - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'Gerenciador Financeiro - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'Banco Sudameris S.A. - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'BESC - Banco do Estado de Santa Catarina - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'BEC - Banco do Estado do Cear - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'Banespa - Microsoft Internet Explorer'
'Bradesco - Colocando voc sempre frente - Microsoft Internet Explorer'

Troj/Banker-CA logs keypresses to TXT files in the following folder (created by the Trojan):

C:\Windows\SSH2\

The Trojan sends the collected information to a remote site via FTP.

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