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F-Secure Trojan Information Pages : SDropper

[ Summary ] | [ Disinfection ]

Name:SDropper
Type:Trojan
Category:Trojan
Platform:SymbOS

Summary

This family of trojans drops files from the SymbOS/Skulls family. Members of the SDropper family have no additional interesting functionality apart from dropping and installing an embedded Skulls SIS file along with some additional non-malware software.

Disinfection

Please see the instructions below for F-Secure's F-Skulls tool. The tool will help in removing the Skulls files that were dropped by the member of the SDropper family.

Disinfection with two Series 60 phones

Use F-Skulls to allow for installation of F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus
Install F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus

Download F-Skulls tool from ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/f-skulls.zip or directly to a clean phone from http://www.f-secure.com/tools/f-skulls.sis

  1. Install F-Skulls.sis onto the infected phone's memory card with a clean phone
  2. Put the memory card with the F-Skulls tool into the infected phone
  3. Start up the infected phone and the application installer should now work
  4. Go to the application manager and uninstall the SIS file in which you installed the malware
  5. Download F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus from http://phoneav.com and activate the Anti-Virus
  6. Scan the phone and remove any remaining components of the malware
  7. Remove the F-Skulls tool with the application manager as the phone should now be clean


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Write-up: Juha-Pekka Heikkilä, March 24, 2006

Technical Details: Juha-Pekka Heikkilä, March 24, 2006

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