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Overview

This is a trojan detection. Unlike viruses, trojans do not self-replicate. They are spread manually, often under the premise that they are beneficial or wanted. The most common installation methods involve system or security exploitation, and unsuspecting users manually executing unknown programs. Distribution channels include email, malicious or hacked web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), peer-to-peer networks, etc.

Characteristics

LHa is an archive format which many products support.

There is a potential exploit in the handling of specifically crafted LHa files that could cause a buffer overflow to occur.

This detection is to identify demo samples which have been made available on the Internet that utilise this exploit when products attempt to decompress LHa files.

Symptoms

Vulnerable products crash / stop working.

Method of Infection

N/A

Removal

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a trojan detection. Unlike viruses, trojans do not self-replicate. They are spread manually, often under the premise that they are beneficial or wanted. The most common installation methods involve system or security exploitation, and unsuspecting users manually executing unknown programs. Distribution channels include email, malicious or hacked web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), peer-to-peer networks, etc.

Characteristics

Characteristics -

LHa is an archive format which many products support.

There is a potential exploit in the handling of specifically crafted LHa files that could cause a buffer overflow to occur.

This detection is to identify demo samples which have been made available on the Internet that utilise this exploit when products attempt to decompress LHa files.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Vulnerable products crash / stop working.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A

Removal -

Removal -

Variants

Variants -

N/A