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F-Secure Trojan Information Pages : Cardtrap.X

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

Name:Cardtrap.X
Category:Trojan
Platform:SymbOS
Date of Discovery:February 02, 2006

Summary

Cardtrap.X 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.

Detailed Description

Spreading in “Adobe Reader 3 - Cracked.sis”

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

Cardtrap.X tries to disable following system applications:

  • About
  • Application installer
  • Application manager
  • Browser
  • Phonebook
  • File manager
  • Bluetooth manager
  • MMS and SMS messaging inbox
  • ToDo list

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

Installation to the MMC card

Cardtrap.X installs following Windows malware
to the phone MMC card
  • Yet unnamed Win32 trojan


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Detection

F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus for Symbian detects this malware starting from the update build number 11.


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Write-up: Jarno Niemelä

Technical Details: Jarno Niemelä, February 2, 2006

Description Updated: Jarno Niemelä, February 2, 2006

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