Sophos

Troj/Lineage-BT

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Hangame.s
  • PWS-Lineage
  • trojan
  • PWSteal.Trojan
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 6 December 2005 11:25:14 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Lineage-BT is an information stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Lineage-BT has the functionality to communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When run, Troj/Lineage-BT copies itself to <System>\Associates.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Associates
<System>\Associates.exe

Troj/Lineage-BT terminates the following processes:

EGHOST.EXE
MAILMON.EXE
KAVPFW.EXE
IPARMOR.EXE

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