Sophos

Troj/Lineage-PN

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Lineage.pn
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 2 December 2005 09:13:37 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

When Troj/Lineage-PN is installed it creates the file <Temp>\<ORIGFILENAME>.DLL

The following registry entry is set to run <ORIGFILENAME>.DLL

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
winabc
"rundll32.exe <Temp>\<ORIGFILENAME>.DLL,InstallLaunchEv"

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