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Troj/Banker-ELQ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 8 May 2008 18:29:57 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Banker-ELQ is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Banker-ELQ includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When Troj/Banker-ELQ is installed the following files are created:

<Startup>\win.exe
<Root>\start.bat (detected as Troj/Banker-ELQ)
<System>\win.exe
<System>\chkcheck0001.txt (text file. may be deleted.)

The files <System>\win.exe and <Startup>\win.exe are detected as Mal/DelpBanc-A.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Winexec32
<System>\win.exe

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