Sophos

Troj/Lineag-AN

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 11 January 2009 10:22:17 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

When first run Troj/Lineag-AN copies itself to <Windows>\help\EB6C4499B05F.exe and creates the following files:

<Root>\1.hiv
<Root>\2.hiv
<Current Folder>\2.bat
<Windows>\1.bat
<Windows>\help\EB6C4499B05F.dll

The file EB6C4499B05F.dll is detected as Mal/LineDLL-B.

The file EB6C4499B05F.dll is registered as a COM object and shell extension, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\{1DBD6574-D6D0-4782-94C3-69619E719765}

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks\{1DBD6574-D6D0-4782-94C3-69619E719765}

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