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Troj/Bckdr-QNY

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 13 June 2008 17:32:01 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/Bckdr-QNY is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bckdr-QNY includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server.

When Troj/Bckdr-QNY is installed the following files are created:

<System>\00051be1.sys - a text file that can be safely deleted.
<System>\<random characters>.dll - detected as Troj/Bckdr-QNI

The file guridr.dll is registered as a new service named "clipupdate". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\clipupdate

The following registry entry is created:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost
clipupdate
clipupdate

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