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Troj/FakeAV-AZX

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 13 March 2010 23:47:55 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/FakeAV-AZX is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/FakeAV-AZX includes functionality to:

- run automatically
- create batch scripts
- access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP

Troj/FakeAV-AZX communicates via HTTP with the following locations:

91 . 213 . 157 . 15


When Troj/FakeAV-AZX is installed the following files are created:

<User>\Application Data\<random six digits>\<random six digits>.exe
<Desktop>\Security Tool.lnk
<Start Menu\Programs>\Security Tool.lnk

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\<random six digits>
HKLM\SOFTWARE

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