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Troj/Cgab-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Included in our products from August 2005 (3.96)
Protection available since 9 June 2005 19:26:06 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Cgab-A is a Trojan that downloads Troj/Borodrop-A.

The first occurrence of this Trojan was seen in spam associated with Michael Jackson. Troj/Cgab-A is a Trojan downloader that attempts to use an exploit to download further malicious code. At the time of writing, the downloaded file is the Trojan Troj/Borodrop-A.

Troj/Cgab-A attempts to exploit the HTML Help Control Vulnerability patched in MS05-001.

The first occurrence of this Trojan was seen in spam associated with Michael Jackson.

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