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Trojan:Win32/Purubutu.B

First posted on 16 September 2014.
Source: Microsoft

Aliases :

There are no other names known for Trojan:Win32/Purubutu.B.

Explanation :

Threat behavior Trojan:Win32/Purubutu.B is a malicious program that is unable to spread of its own accord. It may perform a number of actions of an attacker's choice on an affected computer.

Installation

Trojan:Win32/Purubutu.B 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\local settings\application data\adobe\acrobat\8.0\updater\updater.log

Payload

Contacts remote host

Trojan:Win32/Purubutu.B might contact a remote host at www.adobe.com using port 80. Commonly, malware does this to:

• 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 6a8a1aeb5cf362ac226e92d80009a5a546e73161.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\local settings\application data\adobe\acrobat\8.0\updater\updater.log

Last update 16 September 2014

 

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