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Troj/Bifrose-FG

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 5 March 2006 23:15:08 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Bifrose-FG is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Bifrose-FG copies itself to <System>\mstask32.exe and creates the file <System>\plugin1.dat.

Plugin1.dat may be safely deleted.

The following registry entries are created to run mstask32.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
toplisty
<System>\mstask32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
toplisty
<System>\mstask32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{9B71D88C-C598-4935-C5D1-43AA4DB90836}
stubpath
<System>\mstask32.exe s

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\Wget\

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