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Backdoor:Win32/Samsteal.A.dr
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: BackDoor-CST (McAfee) Trojan.Maroot (Symantec) Win32/Maroot.A!Dropper (CA)
Summary
Backdoor:Win32/Samsteal.A.dr is a Trojan dropper that targets several versions of Microsoft Windows. The Trojan drops a file that in turn drops Backdoor:Win32/Samsteal.A and three other files.
It is not possible to recover manually from Backdoor:Win32/Samsteal.A.dr because this Trojan dropper automatically deletes itself after it drops Process.exe.