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SWF

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Other

Aliases:

  • SWF
  • Trojan.swf
  • Trojan.swf.agent

Summary

The term 'SWF' is used in an F-Secure detection name as a platform identifier to indicate programs that run on the Adobe Flash platform, a type of file format commonly used for multimedia presentations and interactive web applications.

Removal

Technical Details

To view SWF files (also known as Flash files), a user usually requires a separate 'player' application known as a Flash Player to be installed, usually as a plugin to their web browser.

Some malware are deceptively designed to mimic genuine Flash files, and are promoted to unsuspecting users using social engineering techniques in order to convince the user to execute the malicious file. A representative example of SWF malware is:

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