Sophos

Troj/Ranck-DX

Aliases
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Ranky.gen
  • BKDR_RANKY.JC
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2006 (4.04)
Protection available since 8 March 2006 14:48:04 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Ranck-DX runs continuously in the background listening on a randomly generated port and allows HTTP traffic to be relayed through the computer.

The Troj/Ranck-DX proxy server may be used to forward spam.

Troj/Ranck-DX includes functionality to provide a proxy server. Troj/Ranck-DX runs continuously in the background listening on a randomly generated port and allows HTTP traffic to be relayed through the computer.

The Troj/Ranck-DX proxy server may be used to forward spam.

When Troj/Ranck-DX becomes active it sends a notification message to a remote location, specifying the IP address of the current computer and the randomly generated port number which will typically be within the range 10000 - 50000.

Troj/Ranck-DX includes functionality to provide a proxy server.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Ranck-DX on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
<variable>
<pathname of the Trojan executable>

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