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Troj/Banker-EQ

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.vr
  • PWS-Banker.gen.b
  • PWSteal.Bancos.gen
  • TSPY_BANCOS.CAV
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 20 July 2005 21:21:38 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Banker-EQ targets the customers of certain Brazilian banks, displaying fake interfaces, and harvesting any entered account details.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Banker-EQ on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
msnmsgy
<pathname of the Trojan executable>

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