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Troj/Banker-FZ

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banbra.ek
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 21 October 2005 04:41:19 (GMT)
Last updated 5 January 2006 11:17:28 (GMT)
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More Information

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

Troj/Banker-FZ targets the customers of certain Brazilian online banking websites, by logging any keystrokes entered into any forms at those websites as well as creating screen grabs.

When first run Troj/Banker-FZ copies itself to <Windows>\wscntfy.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
KAVPersonal90
<Windows>\wscntfy.exe /nosplash

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