New Startup Method?

Nick Harbour wrote on his blog about new spyware using fxsst.dll which is present on the system when the system is running as a Fax server. Seems the explorer.exe automatically loads the dll when logging on. Mubix decided to test this out with a .dll generated in Metasploit and it worked every time on his test system (WinXP) but Win7 64bit was still having issues with the dll he generated.

TL;DR – Take any malware DLL, name it fxsst.dll and drop it in C:\WINDOWS or the System32 folder and Explorer.exe will load it at boot time.

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