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F-Secure Trojan Information Pages : Cardtrap.AA

[Summary] | [Disinfection] | [Detailed Description] | [Detection]

Name:Cardtrap.AA
Category:Trojan
Platform:SymbOS
Date of Discovery:February 05, 2006

Summary

Cardtrap.AA is Symbian SIS file trojan that disables several Symbian built in applications, tries to damage some 3rd party applications and installs Windows malware to the memory card.

Cardtrap.AA installs damaged font file from Blankfont.A, which causes the device malfunction when rebooted. So if you have installed Cardtrap.AA it is important not to reboot your device before disinfection.

Disinfection

Disinfection with Anti-Virus

  1. Download F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus to your phone from http://www.f-secure.com/wireless/download/
  2. Install the Anti-Virus to your phone over USB cable
  3. Start and activate the Anti-Virus
  4. Scan your phone to remove infected files
  5. Use application manager to uninstall the file in which you installed Cardtrap.AA.


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Detailed Description

Spreading in “The Two Thrones-GAMELOFT.sis”

Installation to the phone
Cardtrap.AA tries to disable key system applications and 3rd party products by installing several damaged files to the phone memory

Cardtrap.AA tries to disable following system applications:

  • Application installer
  • Application manager
  • Browser
  • File manager
  • Bluetooth manager

Cardtrap.AA installs files from following Symbian malware:

  • SymbOS/Skulls.A
  • SymbOS/Blankfont.A

F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus is capable of detecting Cardtrap.AA with generic detection, so if phone has functional Anti-Virus installed the Cardtrap.AA is blocked before it can be installed.

Additional malware dropped to the device
Cardtrap.AA drops following malware to device C: drive

  • Trojan.BAT.KillAV.cg
  • Trojan-Dropper.Win32.QuickBatch.e

Installation to the MMC card
Cardtrap.AA installs following Windows malware:

  • Email-Worm.BAT.BWG.d

to the phone MMC card. Worm is installed with filename, icon and shortcut link that tries to fool user into clicking them.


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Detection

F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus for Symbian detects this malware starting from the update build number 45.


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Write-up: Mika Tolvanen

Technical Details: Mika Tolvanen, February 6, 2006

Description Updated: Mika Tolvanen, February 7, 2006

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