Donald Duck

Classification

Category :

Malware

Type :

Trojan

Aliases :

Donald Duck, Erap

Summary

Since September 5th, there has been information in the media about a trojan called Donald Duck, which is said to spread with a variant of the Love Letter worm. F-Secure is not aware of such a variant of Love Letter. Instead, there has been a hacker attack against an ISP in the Philippines, where the hackers were spreading two known trojans called "donald.exe" and "erap.exe" as email attachments. These files are detected by F-Secure Anti-Virus as SubSeven.backdoor.v213 and Trojan.PSW.Barok.c.

Removal

Based on the settings of your F-Secure security product, it will either move the file to the quarantine where it cannot spread or cause harm, or remove it.

A False Positive is when a file is incorrectly detected as harmful, usually because its code or behavior resembles known harmful programs. A False Positive will usually be fixed in a subsequent database update without any action needed on your part. If you wish, you may also:

  • Check for the latest database updates

    First check if your F-Secure security program is using the latest updates, then try scanning the file again.

  • Submit a sample

    After checking, if you still believe the file is incorrectly detected, you can submit a sample of it for re-analysis.

    Note: If the file was moved to quarantine, you need to collect the file from quarantine before you can submit it.

  • Exclude a file from further scanning

    If you are certain that the file is safe and want to continue using it, you can exclude it from further scanning by the F-Secure security product.

    Note: You need administrative rights to change the settings.

Technical Details

According to reports, the messages that were circulating among the users of the ISP had the following subjects:

"DHL PROMO FREE!!! (fwd)"

and

"erap Estrada".

Descriptions of the SubSeven and Barok trojans can be found on our virus information pages:

https://www.europe.F-Secure.com/v-descs/subseven.shtml https://www.europe.F-Secure.com/v-descs/barok.shtml

A description of the LoveLetter worm can be found at:

https://www.Europe.F-Secure.com/v-descs/love.shtml