Sophos

Troj/Bancban-HB

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.aho
  • PWS-Banker.gen.bb
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from December 2005 (4.00)
Protection available since 1 November 2005 15:28:44 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Bancban-HB is a password stealing Trojan targeted at customers of Brazilian banks.

Troj/Bancban-HB attempts to log keypresses entered into certain websites and online banking applications. The Trojan may display fake user interfaces in order to persuade the user to enter confidential details. Stolen information is sent by email to a remote user.

When first run Troj/Bancban-HB copies itself to <Windows>\wupdmgr.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Bancban-HB on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows Update
<Windows>\wupdmgr.exe

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