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Characteristics

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Summary

This is not a virus or a trojan.  It is detected as a potentially unwanted program.  It is a keylogger application designed to capture all keystrokes that are typed by the user. A user interface is displayed on launching the installation executable.

Installation

File: Fingerprints.exe
Hash: 737ce19ccea127dfbcf737bf4c20f42e

Upon installation of this keylogger, the following changes occur in the user's system.

System Changes

General defaults for typical environment variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):
%WinDir% = \WINDOWS (Windows 9x/ME/XP), \WINNT (Windows NT/2000)
%SystemDir% = \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (Windows 9x/ME/XP), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)

Files Added

• %SystemDir%\KeyHook.dll
• %SystemDir%\sysproc.exe
• %SystemDir%\1cu\2006-02-03.exe (Filename based on date)

Registry

Upon execution, the application hooks itself to system startup, by creating the following run entry in system registry.

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
  CurrentVersion\Run | sysproc
  "Value data"="c:\windows\system32\sysproc.exe"

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Removal

Aliases

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