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Trojan:Win32/Eratoma.A

First posted on 28 July 2014.
Source: Microsoft

Aliases :

There are no other names known for Trojan:Win32/Eratoma.A.

Explanation :

Threat behavior

Installation

Trojan:Win32/Eratoma.A creates the following files on your PC:

• c:\documents and settings\administrator\resume.pdf
• c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\adobe\acrobat\8.0\usercache.bin
• c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\microsoft\cryptneturlcache\content\2bf68f4714092295550497dd56f57004
• c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\microsoft\cryptneturlcache\metadata\2bf68f4714092295550497dd56f57004

Payload

Contacts remote hosts

Trojan:Win32/Eratoma.A may contact the following remote hosts using port 80:

• www.adobe.com
• www.download.windowsupdate.com

Commonly, malware does this to:

• Confirm Internet connectivity
• Report a new infection to its author
• Receive configuration or other data
• Download and run files, including updates or other malware
• Receive instructions from a remote hacker
• Upload data taken from your PC

This malware description was produced and published using automated analysis of file SHA1 8e38d5e2e9e4efe3340bd38ab43bdf0f4afcc5c2.Symptoms

System changes

The following could indicate that you have this threat on your PC:

• You have these files:
  
  c:\documents and settings\administrator\resume.pdf
  c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\adobe\acrobat\8.0\usercache.bin
  c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\microsoft\cryptneturlcache\content\2bf68f4714092295550497dd56f57004
  c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\microsoft\cryptneturlcache\metadata\2bf68f4714092295550497dd56f57004

Last update 28 July 2014

 

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