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JS

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Other

Aliases:

  • JS
  • Js
  • JavaScript

Summary

The term 'JS' is used in an F-Secure detection name as a as a platform identifier to indicate a JavaScript program with potentially malicious routines or malware-like code.

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Technical Details

JavaScript (JS) is a popular scripting language commonly used on Web pages to add interactivity to its elements. JavaScript is only loosely related to the Java programming language.

For a representative example of a JavaScript malware, see:

The detection may also identify a HTML or CHM document containing suspicious JavaScript code. In this case, the malicious script is most commonly an exploit.

For more information about JavaScript, please see Terminology: JavaScript.

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