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Troj/Spoof-H

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 26 June 2009 13:35:23 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
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Action

More Information

Troj/Spoof-H has been seen sent out in spam claiming to be an update to Sophos IDE files.

When first run, Troj/Spoof-H creates the following files:
<System>\<7 random letters>.exe
<System>\<7 random letters>.jpg

The following registry entries are created to run the created files on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
<System>\<7 random letters>.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
<System>\<7 random letters>.jpg

Troj/Spoof-H drops and runs <Profile>\Local Settings\Temp\<Random Number>.tmp\csrss.bat. This file is detected as W32/Autorun-AKL.

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