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Troj/DwnLdr-FYD

Aliases
  • CME-711
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.dam
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from March 2007 (4.15)
Protection available since 19 January 2007 02:06:46 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/DwnLdr-FYD is a downloader Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/DwnLdr-FYD creates the following files:

<System>\peers.ini - this file can be safely deleted
<System>\wincom32.sys - this file is detected as Troj/DwnLdr-FYD

Troj/DwnLdr-FYD is registered as a new system driver service named "wincom32" with a display name of "wincom32" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_WINCOM32\
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wincom32\

Troj/DwnLdr-FYD includes functionality:

- to download code from the internet
- attach code to the process SERVICES.EXE

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