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Troj/Lineage-BI

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from January 2006 (4.01)
Protection available since 18 November 2005 21:19:20 (GMT)
Last updated 26 November 2005 03:33:34 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Lineage-BI is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Stolen information may be sent via email to a remote user.

Troj/Lineage-BI will also attempt to terminate the ZoneAlarm process.

When first run Troj/Lineage-BI copies itself to <Windows system folder>\rundll32.exe and creates the following files:

<Windows system folder>\ab2dll.dll
<Windows system folder>\msd.dll

The file ab2dll.dll is also detected as Troj/Lineage-BI. The file msd.dll can be safely deleted.

The following registry entry is created to run rundll32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
LTT2
<Windows system folder>\rundll32.exe

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