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Troj/Bifrose-VN

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 February 2008 22:20:03 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

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

Troj/Bifrose-VN injects its code into a running process in order to hide from the user and bypass some security applications.

When first run Troj/Bifrose-VN creates the following file:

<Application Data>\log.dat - DAT file, can be safely deleted.

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