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Troj/Iespy-A

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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More Information

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

Troj/Iespy-A monitors web browser usage, and sends the recorded information to a pre-specifed website.

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

<Temp>\delt.bat
<System>\mswapi.dll

The file delt.bat is used to delete the original file and is not malicious.

The file mswapi.dll is also detected as Troj/Iespy-A and is registered as a COM object and Browser Helper Object (BHO) for Microsoft Internet Explorer, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\(e3a729da-eabc-df50-1842-dfd682644311)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\(e3a729da-eabc-df50-1842-dfd682644311)

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