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Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.aw

Detected Aug 04 2003 11:43 GMT
Released Aug 04 2003 11:43 GMT
Published Feb 19 2007 11:35 GMT

Technical Details
Payload
Removal instructions

Technical Details

This Trojan is designed to install and launch other programs on the victim machine. It is a Windows PE EXE file. The file is approximately 40KB in size.

Installation

When launched, the Trojan copies its executable file to the Windows system directory under the following name:

%System%\scvhosts.exe

Payload

The Trojan also extracts the following DLL file from its body:

  • %System%\rwtrisfg32.dll — this file is 78,848 bytes in size, and will be detected by Kaspersky Anti-Virus as Backdoor.Win32.SpyBoter.aq.

The Trojan then loads this DLL into the explorer.exe process address space and ceases running.


Removal instructions

If your computer does not have an up-to-date antivirus, or does not have an antivirus solution at all, follow the instructions below to delete the malicious program:

  1. Delete the original Trojan file (the location will depend on how the program originally penetrated the victim machine).
  2. Delete the files created by the Trojan:
    %System%\scvhosts.exe
    %System%\rwtrisfg32.dll
  3. 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.aw (Kaspersky Lab) is also known as:

  • TrojanDropper.Win32.Small.aw (Kaspersky Lab)
  • Virus: W32/Spybot.worm.gen.k (McAfee)
  • Bck/Sdbot.CD (Panda)
  • W32/Spybot.A.gen!Eldorado (FPROT)
  • TrojanDropper:Win32/Small.AW (MS(OneCare))
  • Trojan.MulDrop.566 (DrWeb)
  • Win32/TrojanDropper.Small.AW1 trojan (Nod32)
  • Dropped:Generic.Sdbot.681AC095 (BitDef7)
  • Worm.Spybot.Gen.6 (VirusBuster)
  • Win32:SpyBot-A3388 [Trj] (AVAST)
  • Worm.P2P.Spybot (Ikarus)
  • Dropper.Small.DI (AVG)
  • WORM/SpyBot.78848 (AVIRA)
  • W32.IRCBot (NAV)
  • W32/Spybot.DQPX (Norman)
  • Backdoor.Spyboter.aig (Rising)
  • Possible_Virus (TrendMicro)