Sophos

Troj/PWS-ARD

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from June 2008 (4.30)
Protection available since 1 May 2008 04:36:34 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/PWS-ARD is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/PWS-ARD copies itself to <System>\kavo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\am.dll
<Temp>\qfv.sys
<System>\kavo0.dll

The following registry entry is created to run kavo.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
kava
<System>\kavo.exe

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