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Sadhound

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Backdoor

Aliases:

  • Sadhound

Summary

On January 25th a new backdoor known as Sadhound has been spammed in emails with subject 'I Miss You'. Sadhound is not a worm and does not spread by itself.

Removal

Technical Details

Sadhound drops a text file in Windows Temp folder and opens it with Notepad. The text looks as follow:

There's no special reason for sending this to you, except that... I was feeling a little lonely, and when I asked myself what I seemed to bemissing the most,the answerturned out to be ...you. I Miss You

F-Secure Anti-Virus detects Sadhound with the existing updates as a dropper.

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