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Risk Assessment: Home N/A | Corporate N/A
Date Discovered: 11/20/2008
Date Added: 11/20/2008
Origin: N/A
Length: 19613
Type: Trojan
Subtype: Password Stealer
DAT Required: 5388
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Description

File Property Property Value
FileName windowsxp.exe
McAfee Detection Generic PWS.y
Length 19613 bytes
CRC BADB4C88
MD5 02a878f697b94b93060c574e967af6b

Avert® Labs has observed the following system activities

Activity Risk Level
Enumerates running processes
Medium
Uses shared memory of other processes
Low
Writes executable in the windows folder
Low
Performs a shell execute of downloaded or existing files
Informational

System Changes

These are general defaults for typical path variables. (Although they may differ, these examples are common.):
%WinDir% = \WINDOWS (Windows 9x/ME/XP/Vista), \WINNT (Windows NT/2000)
%SystemDir% = \WINDOWS\SYSTEM (Windows 98/ME), \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (Windows XP/Vista), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)
%ProgramFiles% = \Program Files

The following files have been added to the system:

  • %WINDIR%\system32\micorsoft.dll (PWS-onlinegames.h)
  • %WINDIR%\system32\windowsxp.exe
  • C:\windowsxp.exe
  • C:\autorun.inf

    The following registry elements have been created:

    The windows firewall was disabled.

    The windows Auto Update was turned off.

    Hidden Filess under folder options was disabled.

    The applications created the following network connection(s):

  • http
    • hxxp://59.106.145.58/**********************
    • Backdoor opened on port 1036 and 1043 

     

    Indication of Infection

    Methods of Infection