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Troj/Ranck-DO

Aliases
  • Downloader-PS
  • trojan
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 30 January 2006 14:16:05 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Ranck-DO is a HTTP proxy server Trojan.

The Troj/Ranck-DO proxy server may be used to forward spam.

When Troj/Ranck-DO becomes active it sends a notification message to a remote location, specifying the IP address of the current computer and the randomly generated port number which will typically be within the range 10000 - 50000.

Troj/Ranck-DO includes functionality to:

- provide a proxy server
- access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Ranck-DO on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
SmartTesting
<pathname of the Trojan executable>

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