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Troj/Banload-TL

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Banload.tl
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from March 2006 (4.03)
Protection available since 26 January 2006 23:40:04 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Banload-TL is a downloader Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Banload-TL includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP, and attempts to download and execute new software.

When first run Troj/Banload-TL copies itself to <Windows system folder>\backups.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MSbackups
<Windows system folder>\backups.exe

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