Malware type: Trojan

Aliases: No Alias Found

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003

Encrypted: No

Description: 

To get a one-glance comprehensive view of the behavior of this malware, refer to the Behavior Diagram shown below.

Malware Overview

This Trojan arrives as attachment to email messages spammed by another malware or a malicious user.

Trend Micro detects the compressed attachment in the email as TROJ_CHEPVIL.RAR. The said email provides a password which is used to extract the attachment's .EXE content, which Trend Micro detects as TROJ_CHEPVIL.C.

It accesses Web sites to download files. As a result, malicious routines of the downloaded files are exhibited on the affected system. It then executes the downloaded files. As a result, malicious routines of the downloaded files are exhibited on the affected system.

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Solution
Technical Details

Description created: Aug. 5, 2008 11:51:35 AM GMT -0800

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