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W32/Sdranck-X

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.SdBot.gen
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Ranky.gen
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Protection available since 8 January 2006 21:29:06 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Sdranck-X is a multi-component network worm.

W32/Sdranck-X drops two files in the following locations and then executes them:

<System>\gomex.exe
<System>\nexom.exe

The file gomex.exe is a network worm detected as W32/Sdbot-Fam that attempts to spread W32/Sdranck-X to network shares with weak passwords using the filename secarik.exe.

The file nexom.exe is a proxy Trojan detected as Troj/Ranck-Fam.

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