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Troj/Rindas-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 7 March 2005 22:03:23 (GMT)
Last updated 29 April 2005 13:44:50 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Rindas-A is a backdoor Trojan for Windows based platforms.

Troj/Rindas-A allows intruders access to a compromised machine via IRC channels.

Troj/Rindas-A copies itself to the windows system folder as mfcp30.exe and creates the following registry entry in order to run on system startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
PowerProfile
<Windows system folder>\mfcp30.exe

Troj/Rindas-A may be packaged with the legitimate application Cheating-Death.

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