Sophos

Troj/Lineage-ON

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Lineage.on
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 24 November 2005 04:02:27 (GMT)
Last updated 20 December 2005 22:03:08 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Lineage-ON is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform that attempts to steal passwords associated with the game called "Lineage".

Troj/Lineage-ON includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Troj/Lineage-ON copies itself to <System>\Kerne121.exe and creates the file <System>\microsoftie21.dll. microsoftie21.dll is the keylogging component of the Trojan and is also detected as Troj/Lineage-ON.

The following registry entry is created to run Kerne121.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
load
<System>\Kerne121.exe

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