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Microsoft Security Intelligence
Published Oct 06, 2009 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Exploit:Win32/ShellCode.A

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Trojan-Downloader.JS.Small.oj (Kaspersky) Exploit.Win32.ShellCode (Ikarus)

Summary

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.
 
This is a generic detection for script objects that construct shellcodes. These scripts may be embedded within other types of documents, for example, specially-crafted PDF files.

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