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Troj/Psyme-N

by Marianna Schmudlach Mar 24, 2004 12:11AM PST

Aliases
TrojanSpy.Win32.Oboron, VBS/Psyme.D@dr, VBS/Psyme

Type
Trojan

Description
Troj/Psyme-N is a script-based downloader Trojan which exploits the ADODB stream vulnerabilty associated with Microsoft Internet Explorer to download and run an executable.
Troj/Psyme-N downloads a file from http://trendfix.com.com/1.gif to svchosts.exe and then runs that file.

At the time of writing this identity the file downloaded is detected by Sophos Anti-Virus as Troj/Banker-A.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymen.html