Sophos

Troj/Pirlames-A

Aliases
  • Trojan.Pirlames
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from April 2007 (4.16)
Protection available since 27 February 2007 13:45:36 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Pirlames-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/Pirlames-A will search the harddrive for files with extensions including the following:

EXE, BAT, CMD, INI, ASP, HTM, HTML, PHP, CLASS, JAVA, DBX, EML, MBX, TBB, WAB, HLP, TXT, MP3, XLS, LOG, BMP

Troj/Pirlames-A will delete any such files it finds, replacing them with image files of the same name, but with an added (double) JPG extension. These images are cartoons with Japanese messages.

Troj/Pirlames-A may also display such cartoon messages with Japanese text onto the screen.

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