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Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.rd

Detected May 26 2005 18:03 GMT
Released May 26 2005 18:03 GMT
Published Apr 13 2006 13:35 GMT

Technical Details
Payload
Removal instructions

Technical Details

This Trojan is designed to install other Trojan programs to the victim machine without the knowledge or consent of the user. The Trojan itself is a Windows PE EXE file 27,648 bytes in size.


Payload

Once launched, the Trojan copies itself to the Windows system directory under its original file name:

%System%\<original Trojan file name>

It then registers itself in the system registry:

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Windows Service" = "%System%\<original Trojan file name>"

This ensures that the Trojan will be launched each time Windows is booted on the victim machine.

Once launched, the Trojan copies itself to the Windows system directory as "dload.exe":

%System%\dload.exe (25 088 bytes)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus will detect this file as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.dg

This file will then be launched for execution.


Removal instructions

  1. Delete the original Trojan file (the location will depend on how the program originally penetrated the victim machine).
  2. Delete the following files:
    %System%\<original Trojan file name>
    %System%\dload.exe
  3. Delete the following entries from the system registry:
    [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
    [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
    "Windows Service" = "%System%\<original Trojan file name>"
  4. Update your antivirus databases and perform a full scan of the computer (download a trial version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus)

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Trojan-Dropper

Trojan-Dropper programs are designed to secretly install malicious programs built into their code to victim computers.

This type of malicious program usually save a range of files to the victim’s drive (usually to the Windows directory, the Windows system directory, temporary directory etc.), and launches them without any notification (or with fake notification of an archive error, an outdated operating system version, etc.).

Such programs are used by hackers to:

  • secretly install Trojan programs and/or viruses
  • protect known malicious programs from being detected by antivirus solutions; not all antivirus programs are capable of scanning all the components inside this type of Trojans.

Other versions

Aliases

Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.rd (Kaspersky Lab) is also known as:

  • Trojan: Downloader-ME.dr (McAfee)
  • Troj/Dloader-CX (Sophos)
  • Trojan.Downloader.Tibser-2 (ClamAV)
  • Heuristic.WinPE-Statistical (Panda)
  • W32/Heuristic-217!Eldorado (FPROT)
  • Dialer:Win32/TIBS (MS(OneCare))
  • Trojan.MulDrop.1504 (DrWeb)
  • Win32/TrojanDropper.Small.RD trojan (Nod32)
  • Dropped:Trojan.Downloader.Delf.DG (BitDef7)
  • Trojan.DR.Small!9bDxz2ZczgI (VirusBuster)
  • Win32:Small-CVZ [Trj] (AVAST)
  • Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.rd (Ikarus)
  • Dropper.Small.13.BI (AVG)
  • Dialer.WSV (NAV)
  • NseCheckFile2() returned 0x00010018 (Norman)
  • Trojan.DR.Small!9bDxz2ZczgI (VirusBusterBeta)