This detection indicates that the detected file is a phishing-trojan - a document file that is designed to look legitimate, but actually serves as a delivery vehicle for harmful programs. If the file is opened, embedded code will either drop and install a harmful program onto the user's device, or will download additional harmful components from a remote site to install.
Based on the settings of your F-Secure security product, it will either automatically delete, quarantine or rename the detected program or file, or ask you for a desired action.
Security programs will sometimes unintentionally identify a clean program or file as malicious if its code or behavior is similar to a known harmful program or file. This is known as a False Positive. In most cases, a False Positive is fixed in a subsequent database release.
Usually, updating your F-Secure security product to use the latest database is enough to resolve the issue. You can check by first updating your F-Secure security product to use the latest detection database updates, then rescanning the file.
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The email messages used to deliver phishing-trojans are typically designed to look like normal business communications, often related to taxes, invoicing, deliveries, salaries or other work-related matters. They may also use the branding or names of legitimate companies to further the impression of authenticity. Such messages are also known as phishing emails.
The attached files are most frequently Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, etc), though PDF, HTML or ZIP files are also common. The files usually use fairly innocuous file names, such as 'Invoice', or 'Delivery statement'. to give the impression that they are legitimate.
The careful crafting of the email message and file attachments to appear authentic are all examples of social engineering.
If the user opens the file, most will also display an authentic-looking document as a decoy, to distract the user from any unauthorized actions that occur in the background.
If the file is a Microsoft Office document, and the user's Office settings disable macros by default, a notification message may be displayed asking the user to enable macros, supposedly so that they can view the document contents correctly. In reality, doing so would allow the malicious code embedded in the document to run and install malware on the device.
If the attached file is opened, code embedded in it will run and either:
The specific harmful program installed onto the device varies, and may be separately detected by security products.
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