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Troj/Gina-K

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 18 October 2005 21:16:21 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Gina-K is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run, the Trojan copies itself to the Windows system folder as kxrnxl32.dll and sets the following registry entries:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
AppInit_DLLs
"<Windows system folder>\kxrnxl32.dll"

The Trojan steals Windows login credentials and may run processes as other users.

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