Sophos

Troj/Tibs-UF

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 April 2008 22:53:40 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

When first run Troj/Tibs-UF copies itself to:

<System>\wind32.exe

and creates the following file:

<System>\dll<random characters>.exe - at the time of writing, is a 0 byte file. This file can be deleted safely.

Troj/Tibs-UF creates the following registry entry to start itself:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
System
<System>\wind32.exe

and attempts to avoid process termination via:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DisableTaskMgr
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