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Troj/Banker-HO

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.CommInet.s
  • PWS-Banker.f
  • PWSteal.Bancos
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 25 November 2005 00:59:19 (GMT)
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More Information

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

Troj/Banker-HL targets online banking websites, and can also steal email account details, and information from Protected Storage.

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

When first run Troj/Banker-HO copies itself to <Windows>\ho2stdll.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run ho2stdll.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ho2stdll.exe
<Windows>\ho2stdll.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\UserData\

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