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Troj/Keylog-BM

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.VB.kw
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 January 2006 05:37:24 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Keylog-BM is a keylogger Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Keylog-BM copies itself to <System>\msdtsc.exe and creates the file <System>\msdatl.ocx. The file msdatl.ocx provides functionality to send the keylogged information via SMTP to a remote address and is also detected as Troj/Keylog-BM.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MSN Messenger
<System>\msdtsc.exe

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