DR/PSW.Gamania.GM - Dropper

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Virus:	DR/PSW.Gamania.GM
Date discovered:	18/10/2006
Type:	Dropper
In the wild:	No
Reported Infections:	Low
Distribution Potential:	Low
Damage Potential:	Low to medium
Static file:	Yes
File size:	236.286 Bytes
MD5 checksum:	ad1f26bb6105b21650289ea7433fc1e1
VDF version:	6.36.00.65 - Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:06 (GMT+1)
IVDF version:	6.36.00.79 - Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:27 (GMT+1)

General Method of propagation:
   • No own spreading routine

Aliases:
   • Mcafee: PWS-Lineage.dr
   • Kaspersky: Trojan-PSW.Win32.Gamania.gm
   • Eset: Win32/PSW.Lineage.AJP

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

Side effects:
   • Drops a file
   • Drops a malicious file
   • Steals information

Files It creates the following directory:
• %TEMPDIR%\RarSFX0

The following files are created:

– A file that is for temporary use and it might be deleted afterwards:
• %TEMPDIR%\RarSFX0\??.txt

– %TEMPDIR%\RarSFX0\2.sfx.exe Furthermore it gets executed after it was fully created. Further investigation pointed out that this file is malware, too. Detected as: DR/PSW.Gamania.GM.2

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

See a brief description here.

Description inserted by Monica Ghitun on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:26 (GMT+1)
Description updated by Andrei Ivanes on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:04 (GMT+1)

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