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It allows to get into the affected computer.
It collects email addresses stored on the infected computer.
It notifies the attacker that the computer has been compromised and is ready to be used maliciously.
It does not spread automatically using its own means.
|First detected on:||July 29, 2006|
|Detection updated on:||July 29, 2006|
Wabsteal.A is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy:
It reduces the security level of the computer:
it notifies the attacker that the computer has been compromised and is ready to be used maliciously.
Wabsteal.A uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
- Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
- It is dropped or downloaded to the computer by other malware specimens, for example: Dadobra.LY.