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Troj/Puper-BI

Aliases
  • Trojan.Win32.Puper.bf
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 17 January 2006 22:53:56 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/Puper-BI is a browser hacking Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/Puper-BI is installed the following files are created:

<System>\hhk.dll
<System>\intmon.exe
<System>\hp<random>.tmp

The file hhk.dll is detected as Troj/Puper-V. Intmon.exe and hp<random>.tmp are detected as Troj/Puper-BI.

The file hp23D.tmp is registered as a COM object and Browser Helper Object (BHO) for Microsoft Internet Explorer, creating registry entries under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\(FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFA)
HKCR\CLSID\VMHomepage\
HKCR\CLSID\(FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFA)
HKCR\HP\
HKCR\Interface\(1E1B2878-88FF-11D2-8D96-D7ACAC95951F)
HKCR\TypeLib\(1E1B286C-88FF-11D2-8D96-D7ACAC95951F)

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Enable Browser Extensions
Yes

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Browser Helper Objecta\(FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFA)\

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Browser Helper Objecta\(FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFA)\(default)

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ policies\explorer\run
paint.exe
shnlog.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKCR\HP.1\

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