Infostealer.Salira

Infostealer.Salira is a Trojan Horse that attempts to steal user names and passwords, and masquerades as an rar archive, when it is in fact a normal Win32 PE executable. The file may be hidden inside a compressed zip file in which the file header information is forged to disguise the Trojan.

Usually, the Trojan has a .rar extension and an rar self-extracting file icon. This Trojan is written in Visual C++.


NOTE : Definitions prior to May 10, 2006 may detect this threat as PWSteal.Salira

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version October 14, 2003
• Latest Rapid Release version June 22, 2009 revision 066
• Initial Daily Certified version October 14, 2003 revision 036
• Latest Daily Certified version June 19, 2009 revision 051
• Initial Weekly Certified release date October 15, 2003

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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: Easy

Damage

• Damage Level: Low

Distribution

• Distribution Level: Low