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Troj/Haoba-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 6 September 2007 00:20:49 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

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

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

<System>\MISuvstm.exe - also detected as Troj/Haoba-A
<System>\msivsm32.dll - also detected as Troj/Haoba-A

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
load
<System>\MISuvstm.exe

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