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Troj/GWGhost-Q

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Lineage.jv
  • TSPY_AGENT.AP
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 20 September 2005 09:38:48 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/GWGhost-Q is an information stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/GWGhost-Q copies itself to <System>\foxdh.exe.

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

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

Troj/GWGhost-Q includes functionality to log keystrokes and send the information to a remote location via email.

Troj/GWGhost-Q may also create the files

C:\finderrlong.txt
<Current folder>\foxhd.sls

These files may be deleted.

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