W2KM_DLOADR.DPN

 Analysis by: Jennifer Gumban

 ALIASES:

W97M/Downloader.aia (McAfee); W97M.Downloader (Symantec); WM/Agent.QWZ!tr (Fortinet); Trojan-Downloader.MSWord.Agent.li (Kaspersky); TrojanDownloader:Win32/Adnel.C (Microsoft)

 PLATFORM:

Windows

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Trojan

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW


This Trojan arrives as an attachment to email messages spammed by other malware/grayware or malicious users. It arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

It drops copies of itself in the Windows Common Startup folder to enable its automatic execution at every system startup.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size:

23,151 bytes

File Type:

DOC, HTML, HTM

Initial Samples Received Date:

08 Jun 2015

Arrival Details

This Trojan arrives as an attachment to email messages spammed by other malware/grayware or malicious users.

It arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Autostart Technique

This Trojan drops copies of itself in the Windows Common Startup folder to enable its automatic execution at every system startup.

Other Details

This Trojan connects to the following possibly malicious URL:

  • http://{BLOCKED}.{BLOCKED}.130.99/bt/bt/get5.php
  • http://{BLOCKED}in.com/download.php?i=1YzPHtum