Sophos

Troj/QQPass-J

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.QQShou.h
  • PWS-QQPass
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from September 2005 (3.97)
Protection available since 12 July 2005 08:33:17 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/QQPass-J is a password-stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/QQPass-J sends stolen details to a pre-specified email address.

When first run Troj/QQPass-J copies itself to:

<Windows>\winsys.exe

and creates the following file:

<System>\winet.dll

winet.dll is a data file, and can be safely deleted.

The following registry entries are created to run winset.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
loadwin
winsys.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
exporet
winsys.exe

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