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TrojanDropper:Win32/Rovnix.A

Posted: July 25, 2013

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 9/10
Infected PCs: 26
First Seen: July 25, 2013
Last Seen: November 6, 2021
OS(es) Affected: Windows

TrojanDropper:Win32/Rovnix.A is a Trojan that modifies the New Technology File System (NTFS) boot sector of the hard drive to execute other malware threats. TrojanDropper:Win32/Rovnix.A also installs a component, detected as Trojan:Win32/Rovnix.A, to restart the computer so the modified NTFS boot sector will be executed. Once run, TrojanDropper:Win32/Rovnix.A writes a malicious code to certain disk sectors of the local hard drive. TrojanDropper:Win32/Rovnix.A also modifies the NTFS boot sector to execute the written code. On 32-bit Windows computers, the malicious code is found as VirTool:WinNT/Rovnix.A while on 64-bit computers the code is found as VirTool:Win64/Rovnix.A.

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