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Virkel.A

ALIAS:Backdoor.Win32.Virkel.A, Trojan.Win32.VB.aem, W32/Virkel.A

Summary

Virkel is a backdoor with IM (Instant Messenger) spreading capabilities. It was first found on October 26th, 2005. The backdoor can provide a hacker with information about a system, work as a proxy, update itself, perform a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, open remote shell, download files. It also kills processes of anti-virus and security software and blocks access to many different sites that belong to anti-virus and security software vendors.

Additional Details



Detection

Virkel.A backdoor is detected with the following F-Secure Anti-Virus updates:

Version=2005-10-26_01

Writeup: Alexey Podrezov; October 26th, 2005;

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