A Trojan full of Trojans

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 7 May 2003 at 13:13

Sophos has alerted its users to a new Trojan virus that appears as an 'administrative email'.

Troj/Peido-B arrives as an administrative email with an error.hta attachment and contains the text 'THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE'.

It puts the Trojan Dloader-BO on an infected machine which will then contact a Web site within three days of being run, and download further Trojans.

A Trojan opens a doorway into a system, through which the attacker can gain access and even remotely launch attacks on other computers and Web sites.

Sophos has received one report of Peido-B in the wild. You can see further information at the Sophos Web site.