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Troj/Banker-BIR

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.bgl
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from July 2006 (4.07)
Protection available since 12 May 2006 20:21:13 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Banker-BIR is a password-stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Banker-BIR includes functionality to send notification messages to remote locations.

When first run Troj/Banker-BIR copies itself to:

<Startup>\help.scr
<Windows system folder>\help.scr

and creates the file <CurrentFolder>\iphist.dat.

The following registry entry is created to run help.scr on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
help
<Windows system folder>\help.scr

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