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Troj/Banker-EMK

Aliases
  • Generic Downloader.c
  • TROJ_BANLOAD.CPN
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 22 July 2008 15:00:28 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

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

When first run Troj/Banker-EMK copies itself to <Windows>\PeerNet\update.exe and creates the following files:

<Windows>\explo.bat

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
update.exe
<Windows>\PeerNet\update.exe

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