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Troj/PSW-EI

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.OnLineGames.epm
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 12 October 2007 00:09:27 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/PSW-EI is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/PSW-EI copies itself to <Temp>\taso.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\taso0.dll
<Temp>\xgpdlzua.dll
<Temp>\<random name>.sys

The sys file is detected as Mal/RootKit-A.

The following registry entry is created to automaticly run taso.exe on system startup

 HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tasa
<Temp>\taso.exe

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