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Troj/Webdrop-A

Aliases
  • Exploit-MhtRedir.gen
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Web browsing
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 28 June 2005 22:33:34 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Webdrop-A is a Trojan dropper for Windows based systems.

Troj/Webdrop-A is an HTML script that tries to ascertain whether a system viewing that script in a web browser has certain vulnerabilities.

If the system has one or more of these vunlerabilities, Troj/Webdrop-A exploits them to run malicious code.

Troj/Webdrop-A checks for computers that have a vulnerable Java Virtual Machine installed, or that are vulnerable to the MhtRedir or IFRAME exploits.

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