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Trojan:W32/Skintrim

Name : Trojan:W32/Skintrim
Category:Malware
Type:Trojan
Platform:W32

Summary

A trojan, or trojan horse, is a seemingly legitimate program which secretly performs other, usually malicious, functions. It is usually user-initiated and does not replicate.

Additional Details

Trojan:W32/Skintrim is very similar to Adware:W32/Navipromo. Major differences between the two are:

  •  Skintrim creates a mutex with the name of mymutsglwork
  • It injects code into explorer.exe, WLMail.exe, Winmail.exe, Outlook.exe and Thunderbird.exe
  • It hooks certain API such as 'send' of ws2_32.dll and 'OpenProcess' of kernel32.dll
  • It communicates with the updates.advert-network.com server to download a new component.