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Troj/Lingosky-D

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 22 June 2008 11:14:27 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Lingosky-D is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Lingosky-D includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When Troj/Lingosky-D is installed the following files are created:

<System>\<randomcharacters>.exe
<System>\SkypeClient.exe
<System>\Wuauclt.dll
<System>\ieset.ini
<System>\shells32.ini

The .ini files can be deleted, and all the others are also detected as Troj/Lingosky-D.

The file Wuauclt.dll is registered as a new service named "Wuauclt". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wuauclt

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