Virus:TR/Fakealert.abz.6
Type:Trojan
In the wild:No
Reported Infections:Low
Distribution Potential:Low
Damage Potential:Low to medium
Static file:Yes
File size:21.504 Bytes
MD5 checksum:e5f31331f2be5e31b842e60B68193046
VDF version:7.00.07.18
IVDF version:7.00.07.19 - Thursday, October 9, 2008

 General Aliases:
   •  Mcafee: Cutwail.dll trojan
   •  Kaspersky: Backdoor.Win32.Hijack.ac
   •  F-Secure: Backdoor.Win32.Hijack.ac
   •  Sophos: Troj/Agent-HNY
   •  Bitdefender: Trojan.FakeAlert.ABZ


Platforms / OS:
   • Windows 95
   • Windows 98
   • Windows 98 SE
   • Windows NT
   • Windows ME
   • Windows 2000
   • Windows XP
   • Windows 2003
   • Windows CE


Side effects:
   • Drops a malicious file
   • Registry modification

 Files The following file is created:

– %tempdir%\olr15.tmp Furthermore it gets executed after it was fully created. Further investigation pointed out that this file is malware, too. Detected as: TR/Agent.wyi.1

 Registry The following registry key is added:

– [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\
   lbfubdiq]

 Injection – It injects itself into a process.

    Process name:
   • svchost.exe


 File details Runtime packer:
In order to aggravate detection and reduce size of the file it is packed with a runtime packer.

Description inserted by Irina Diaconescu on Thursday, December 4, 2008
Description updated by Irina Diaconescu on Thursday, December 4, 2008

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