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Troj/RemLoad-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 21 November 2005 15:32:36 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/RemLoad-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/RemLoad-A includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

Troj/RemLoad-A may download and execute further files, and can retrieve information about an infected system, including network details, and send these to a remote intruder. Troj/RemLoad-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/RemLoad-A includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

Troj/RemLoad-A may download and execute further files, and can retrieve information about an infected system, including network details, and send these to a remote intruder.

When Troj/RemLoad-A is first run, the following files are created:
<System>\checkreg.exe
<System>\iisload.dll
<System>\s32l.txt
<System>\ws386l.ini
<System>\wsl21655.dll

s32l.txt and ws386l.ini are clean data files, iisload.dll is a clean DLL, and they may all be safely deleted. The other files are detected as Troj/RemLoad-A.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Registry Startup Check
<System>\checkreg.exe

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