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Troj/Spammit-H

Aliases
  • SpamTool.Win32.Delf.m
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 18 October 2006 08:58:00 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Spammit-H is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Spammit-H includes functionality to:

- access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP
- send notification messages to remote locations

When first run Troj/Spammit-H copies itself to:

<Windows>\Media\Call32.exe
<System>\Outlook Express.exe

and creates the following files:

\win.ini
<Windows>\netaps2.txt
<System>\ftpd.dll

The following registry entries are created to run Call32.exe and Outlook Express.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Outlook
<System>\Outlook Express.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Call32
<Windows>\MEDIA\Call32.exe

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