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Troj/Lineage-AP

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Lineage.ha
  • PWS-Lineage.dll
  • trojan
  • PWSteal.Lineage
  • TSPY_LINEAGE.AJ
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 13 September 2005 14:09:15 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Lineage-AP is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform that attempts to steal passwords associated with the game called "Lineage".

When first run Troj/Lineage-AP copies itself to <Program Files>\svhost32.exe, creates the file <System>\T1dll.dll.

The following registry entry is created to run svhost32.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
load
<Program Files>\svhost32.exe

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