Sophos

Troj/Dloader-ET

Aliases
  • TrojanDownloader.Win32.Small.vv
  • Downloader-QA
  • TROJ_SMALL.IM
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2005 (3.90)
Protection available since 18 December 2004 16:49:41 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Dloader-ET is a downloader Trojan for the Windows platform. The Trojan
will create a folder called golumm under the Windows system folder and copy
itself there as services.exe. Troj/Dloader-ET will then download and execute
files from http://www.newiframe.biz. Some of the files downloaded are
recognized malware while others are configuration files telling the Trojan
other files to download and execute.

Every 60 seconds Troj/Dloader-ET will contact http://www.newiframe.biz to
download a file listing urls to display and executables to download and
execute.

Troj/Dloader-ET will create the following registry entries:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
golumm
<Windows system folder>\golumm\services.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
sysinit
<Windows system folder>\golumm\services.exe

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