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| Detected | May 26 2005 18:03 GMT |
| Released | May 26 2005 18:03 GMT |
| Published | Apr 13 2006 13:35 GMT |
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.
Once launched, the Trojan copies itself to the Windows system directory under its original file name:
It then registers itself in the system registry:
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":
Kaspersky Anti-Virus will detect this file as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.dg
This file will then be launched for execution.
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:
Trojan-Dropper.