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Troj/Cosiam-F

Aliases
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Small.bo
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 April 2006 13:50:04 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Cosiam-F is a backdoor Trojan which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer.

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

When first run Troj/Cosiam-F copies itself to <System>\tetriz3.exe and creates the file <System>\bin29a.log.

The following registry entries are created to run tetriz3.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tetriz3
<System>\tetriz3.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tetriz3
<System>\tetriz3.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
tetriz3
<System>\tetriz3.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\

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