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Microsoft Security Intelligence
Published Mar 27, 2006 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

TrojanDropper:Win32/Hupigon

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Win32/Pigeon (CA) BKDR_GRAYBIRD (Trend Micro) Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon (Kaspersky) W32/Hupigon (Norman) Troj/Feutel (Sophos)

Summary

TrojanDropper:Win32/Hupigon is component of Win32/Hupigon. TrojanDropper:Win32/Hupigon copies itself to the system folder and runs itself from there.  It then drops the other Hupigon components, registers the primary Backdoor component as a service, and injects the stealth / password stealer components into other processes using CreateRemoteThread. For more information, see the encyclopedia entry for Win32/Hupigon
Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. Use the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Safety Scanner, or another up-to-date scanning and removal tool to detect and remove this threat and other unwanted software from your computer. For more information on Microsoft security products, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/products/computer/default.mspx.
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