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| Detected | May 29 2006 15:43 GMT |
| Released | May 29 2006 15:43 GMT |
| Published | Jan 09 2007 13:53 GMT |
Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.o is the name for a family of Trojan programs which install other malicious programs on the victim machine without the knowledge or consent of the user. The programs are Windows PE EXE files. The file size may vary significantly.
Further details of one program in this family are as follows: the file is called result.exe, with the following MD5: 67abb14646d81701af7d64721962dab8. It is a Windows PE EXE file. The file is 402,976 bytes in size.
Once launched, the Trojan will extract four files with temporary names from itself to the Windows temporary directory:
The files are then launched for execution
%Temp%\<temporary_name;.exe %Temp%\<temporary_name;.jpg %Temp%\<temporary_name;.exe %Temp%\<temporary_name;.vbs
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.