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Troj/Bifrose-VW

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 13 June 2008 07:11:55 (GMT)
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More Information

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

Troj/Bifrose-VW runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

When Troj/Bifrose-VW is installed the following files are created:

<Temp>\ixp000.tmp\gore-p~1.exe detected as Mal/Emogen-K
<Temp>\ixp000.tmp\postal~1.exe detected as Troj/Banhost-N
<Temp>\win32.exe detected as Troj/Bifrose-VW
<System>\IMG_SPA500135A.JPG.exe detected as Troj/Bifrose-VW
<System>\spoolvs.exe detected as Troj/Bifrose-VW

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

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

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