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Troj/Haxdoor-AU

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Goldun.hn
  • PWS-Goldun.dr
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 16 February 2006 12:25:38 (GMT)
Last updated 30 June 2006 09:41:04 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Haxdoor-AU is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/Haxdoor-AU is installed the following files are created:

<System>\hpprintdrv.sys
<System>\hpprintx.dll

The file hpprintdrv.sys is detected as Troj/Haxdor-Gen and the file hpprintx.dll is detected as Troj/Haxdor-Fam.

The following registry entries are created to run code exported by hpprintx.dll on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\hpprintx
DllName
hpprintx.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\hpprintx
Startup
hpprintx

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\hpprintx
Impersonate
1

The file hpprintdrv.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "hpprintdrv", with a display name of "HP32X Printer driver". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hpprintdrv\

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