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Trojan.MacOS.Cowhand.A

First posted on 21 November 2011.
Source: BitDefender

Aliases :

Trojan.MacOS.Cowhand.A is also known as MAC/Agent.6896!tr, Mac/Cowhand-A, MACOS/Cowhand.A.

Explanation :

Mac/Cowhand-A is a proxy trojan for the Mac OS platform.

This trojan copies itself in the user's:
* preferences folder ( "/Users/[UserName]/Library/Preferences" )
* login items folder ("/Users/[UserName]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist"), in order to be launched at startup.

This trojan allows a remote attacker to have access to the machine and use it as a proxy for criminal activities.

Last update 21 November 2011

 

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