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First posted on 18 September 2009.
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Explanation :
This type of trojan contains one or more malicious programs, which it will secretly install and execute.
Additional DetailsThis is the Trojan-Dropper General Information page.
A Trojan-Dropper is usually a standalone program that drops different type of standalone malware (trojans, worms, backdoors) to a system.
A typical Trojan-Dropper is an executable file that contains a other files compressed inside its body. When a Trojan-Dropper is run, it extracts all files it contains to some folder (usually temporary folder) and runs all of them simultaneously. In many cases, Trojan-Droppers also contain innocent files or multimedia files to disguise malicious activities.
Trojan-Droppers are usually created by special programs called 'joiners'. These programs allow to customize functionalities and to add as many files as needed into the package.
Some Trojan-Droppers extract components directly to memory and activate them there. In this case anti-virus software is not able to detect dropped malware, so detection of the whole trojan dropper package is added.Last update 18 September 2009
