Sophos

Troj/Jupdrop-A

Aliases
  • Download.Trojan
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2006 (4.02)
Protection available since 23 November 2005 17:57:04 (GMT)
Last updated 9 January 2006 14:20:51 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Jupdrop-A is a dropper Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Jupdrop-A may drop the empty file file werdsf to the Windows system folder.

Troj/Jupdrop-A may drop the files mspostsp.exe and msupdate32.dll to the Windows system or local application data folder. The file mspostsp.exe is detected as Troj/Jupdrop-A and the file msupdate32.dll is usually detected as a member of the Troj/Jupdow family.

If the files are dropped to the Windows system folder, the following registry entries are created to run code exported by msupdate32.dll on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\msupdate
DllName
msupdate32.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\msupdate
Startup
WinlogonStartupEvent

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\msupdate
Impersonate
0

If the files are dropped to the local application data folder, the following registry entry is created to run mspostsp.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell
Explorer.exe "<local application data>\mspostsp.exe"

Troj/Jupdrop-A then runs mspostsp.exe, which injects msupdate32.dll into the process explorer.exe.

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