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Troj/SrchSpy-C

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Small.ez
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 23 July 2006 07:14:25 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/SrchSpy-C is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/SrchSpy-C monitors Internet Explorer activity, and may retrieve information about browsing habits as well as inspecting and modifying search queries. Troj/SrchSpy-C is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/SrchSpy-C monitors Internet Explorer activity, and may retrieve information about browsing habits as well as inspecting and modifying search queries.

When first run, Troj/SrchSpy-C creates the following files:

<System>\IEFilter.dll
<System>\Service.exe

On NT based systems, Service.exe is registered as a service with a display name of Service, creating registry entries under the following:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Service\

The following registry entry is created to run code exported by the Trojan IEFilter.dll:

HKCR\CLSID\(3DCE4CF1-0504-402C-9860-ADCADE4B32C1)\InprocServer32
<System>\IEFilter.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad
IEFilter
(3DCE4CF1-0504-402C-9860-ADCADE4B32C1)

Registry entries are also created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Filter\

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