LNK:FakeFolder-B [Trj] Outlines
LNK:FakeFolder-B [Trj] has been recently found to spread via portable devices. Once an affected device is connected to a machine, .lnk extension will be caught to be added to all folders. It had also been found that the files and data copied from a machine were gone when they were about to be pasted onto another machine; and the only stuff that showed up were loads of .tmp files. Though the FakeFolder Trojan can be detected and quarantined by installed anti-virus program, the files stay affected on hard drives. In other word, LNK:FakeFolder-B [Trj] has not been removed completely.
As its name suggests, LNK:FakeFolder-B [Trj] attackes shortcut vulnerability. And once the FakeFolder Trojan settles down on a machine, it would generate items and documents that appear to be normal, awaiting unwitting clicks to execute its vicious codes and payloads:
