Sophos

Troj/Lineage-CA

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Lineage.rq
  • New
  • Malware.n
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 21 December 2005 10:11:10 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When first run Troj/Lineage-CA copies itself to <System>\Kerne1211.exe and creates the following files:

<System>\microsoftie1211.dll

The following registry entry is created to run Kerne1211.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
load
<System>\Kerne1211.exe

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