Trojan.Dasmin.B

Risk Level 1: Very Low

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Discovered: January 29, 2003
Updated: February 13, 2007 11:56:37 AM
Type: Trojan Horse
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP



Trojan.Dasmin.B is a Trojan horse and a variant of Trojan.Dasmin. This Trojan horse tries to disguise the files it creates as Windows System files.

Trojan.Dasmin.B also sends users to specific Web pages, so that a counter on a page is incremented with each page hit. The author of this Trojan horse probably set up the Web page.

This threat is compressed with UPX.

Protection

  • Initial Rapid Release version January 30, 2003
  • Latest Rapid Release version June 22, 2009 revision 066
  • Initial Daily Certified version January 30, 2003
  • Latest Daily Certified version June 19, 2009 revision 051
  • Initial Weekly Certified release date February 5, 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

Writeup By: Yana Liu
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