Sophos

Troj/QQPass-AM

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.QQShou.bn
  • PWS-QQPass
  • trojan
  • Trojan.PWS.QQPass
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 December 2005 16:29:36 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/QQPass-AM is a Trojan for the Windows platform with keylogging functionality.

When first run Troj/QQPass-AM copies itself to:

<Windows temp folder>\temp~2
<Windows system folder>\algesetp.exe

and creates the following files:

<Windows system folder>\temp.jpg
<Windows system folder>\windky.dll

The files temp.jpg and windky.dll are clean and can be simply deleted.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
SystUphes
<Windows system folder>\algesetp.exe

Troj/QQPass-AM may attempt to terminate several processes and services related to anti-virus and security programs.

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