Sophos

Troj/Fusion-B

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Coldfuson.j
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 2006 (4.02)
Protection available since 11 January 2006 14:59:16 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Fusion-B is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Fusion-B can log keypresses and email the results to a remote attacker. The Trojan includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When Troj/Fusion-B is installed the following files are created:

<Temp>\~dp1.dll
<Windows>\nwisse.exe
<Windows>\winspols.scr
<System>\emgfx.exe
<System>\svch0st.com
<System>\svchost.klg

The files nwisse.exe, winspols.scr, emgfx.exe, and svch0st.com are slightly modified copies of the original Trojan, and detected as Troj/Fusion-B. The file ~dp1.dll is also detected as Troj/Fusion-B.

svchost.klg is a data file and may safely be deleted.

The following registry entries are created to run emgfx.exe, nwisse.exe, winspols.scr and svch0st.com on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\(tt9381D8F2-0288-11D0-9501-00AA00B911A5)
StubPath
<System>\emgfx.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
nwisse
<Windows>\nwisse.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell
Explorer.exe winspols.scr

(the default value for this registry entry is "Explorer.exe" which causes the Microsoft file <Windows>\Explorer.exe

to be run on startup).

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
System
<System>\SVCH0ST.com

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