Sophos

Troj/Lineage-KX

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 06:05:04 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When Troj/Lineage-KX is installed it creates the file <System>\wintt1.dll.

The file wintt1.dll is registered as a COM object and ShellExecute hook,
creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\(44B40E3F-E91C-4ae3-89A6-1D1048A162A6)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
ShellExecuteHooks\(44B40E3F-E91C-4ae3-89A6-1D1048A162A6)

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