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Troj/LegMir-ARR

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Nilage.bvq
  • PWS-LegMir
  • trojan
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 January 2008 15:38:51 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/LegMir-ARR is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/LegMir-ARR copies itself to <System>\amvo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\h308v9.sys
<Temp>\rmjwp5.dll
<System>\amvo0.dll

The file amvo0.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen and the file h308v9.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A. The file rmjwp5.dll is detected as Troj/LegMir-ARR.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
amva
<System>\amvo.exe

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