Sophos

Troj/Downdel-A

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.wn
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 5 October 2005 22:24:18 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

Troj/Downdel-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Downdel-A includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP. It attempts to download further malware.

When Troj/Downdel-A is installed the following files are created:

<System>\Microsoft\Protect\s-1-5-18\User\svchost\load.exe
<System>\Microsoft\Protect\s-1-5-18\User\svchost\svchost
<System>\Microsoft\Protect\s-1-5-18\User\svchost\update.ini

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
IMAPI
<System>\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\User\svchost\load.exe

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