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Troj/Pushu-F

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 9 January 2008 02:12:13 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
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Action

More Information

Troj/Pushu-F is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/Pushu-F is installed it creates the file <System>\drivers\runtime.sys. The file runtime.sys is detected as Troj/Pushu-Gen.

The file runtime.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "runtime". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\runtime\
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_RUNTIME\

The Trojan also replaces <System>\drivers\secdrv.sys with its own copy. This file is detected as Troj/Pushu-Gen. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SecDrv\
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SECDRV\

Troj/Pushu-F also creates a file <Root>\<random characters>.exe. This file is detected as Troj/Pushu-E.

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