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Troj/MDrop-BRI

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 5 April 2008 03:36:33 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/MDrop-BRI attempts to download further executable code.

At the time of writing, files downloaded by the Trojan are detected as Troj/Pushdo-Gen and Mal/Emogen-Y.

Troj/MDrop-BRI injects code into the svchost.exe process.

The following registry entry is created in order to run the Trojan on startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
advap32
<Trojan filename> /r

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