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Troj/VidCach-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
  • Monitors browser activity
Protection available since 14 March 2007 06:57:09 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/VidCach-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run, the Trojan creates the following files:

<Windows>\iedrives.dll (Detected as Troj/VidCach-A)
<Windows>\msdrv.exe (Detected as Troj/VidCach-A)
<Windows>\msdrvctrl.exe (Detected as Troj/VidCach-A)
<System>\msdrives\driverpp.sys (Detected as Troj/RKProc-Fam)
<System>\msdrives\iedrives.dll (Detected as Troj/VidCach-A)
<System>\msdrives\msdrv.exe (Detected as Troj/VidCach-A)
<System>\msdrives\msdrvctrl.exe (Detected as Troj/VidCach-A)

The following registry entry is created to run msdrvctrl.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run
msdrvctrl
<Windows>\msdrvctrl.exe

The file iedrives.dll is registered as a COM object, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\VPNS.VPNSApp\
HKCR\TypeLib\(A8954909-1F0F-41A5-A7FA-3B376D69E226)
HKCR\Interface\(9692BE2F-EB8F-49D9-A11C-C24C1EF734D5)
HKCR\Interface\(967A494A-6AEC-4555-9CAF-FA6EB00ACF91)
HKCR\CLSID\(366B2151-E1C7-44a3-86A3-E5686C2A3D2F)

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