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Troj/PWS-AUF

Aliases
  • Trojan:Win32/Helpud.A
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.OnLineGames.ajlf
  • PWS-OnlineGames.y.dll trojan
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 11 October 2008 15:49:07 (GMT)
Last updated 15 December 2008 11:02:41 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/PWS-AUF is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/PWS-AUF is installed the following files are created:

<Windows>\Help\<variable>.dll
<Windows>\Help\<variable>.exe

where <variable> is a filename consisting of upper-case letters and digits. Both files have the hidden and system attributes set.

The file <variable>.dll is registered as a COM object and shell extension, creating registry entries under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks
HKCR\CLSID\{1DBD6574-D6D0-4782-94C3-69619E719765}

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