Backdoor.Coreflood.C

Backdoor.Coreflood.C is a Trojan horse program that opens a back door on the compromised computer and may participate in denial of service attacks.

Variants of Backdoor.Coreflood have been distributed through infected Web pages. Visiting a compromised Web site will cause Backdoor.Coreflood.dr to be downloaded. Backdoor.Coreflood.dr will then attempt to install a Backdoor.Coreflood variant. It has been reported that this may also occur with this variant.

For more information, please review:
Backdoor.Coreflood and Backdoor.Coreflood.dr

Note: Definitions before May 9, 2007 may detect this Trojan as Trojan.Horse.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version May 9, 2007
• Latest Rapid Release version November 24, 2009 revision 020
• Initial Daily Certified version May 9, 2007
• Latest Daily Certified version November 24, 2009 revision 035
• Initial Weekly Certified release date May 9, 2007

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Threat Assessment

Wild

• Wild Level: Low
• Number of Infections: 0 - 49
• Number of Sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical Distribution: Low
• Threat Containment: Easy
• Removal: Moderate

Damage

• Damage Level: Medium
• Payload: Opens a back door.
• Degrades Performance: Participation in denial of service attacks may degrade performance.

Distribution

• Distribution Level: Low