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Troj/Lineag-AW

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 12 August 2007 23:22:50 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Lineag-AW is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Lineag-AW copies itself to <System>\kavo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\14c.sys
<Temp>\ego2.dll
<System>\kavo0.dll

The file kavo0.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen, the file 14c.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A and the file ego2.dll is detected as Mal/EncPk-AH.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
kava
<System>\kavo.exe

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