W32/Autoit-CV

Category: Viruses and Spyware Protection available since:15 Jun 2009 19:18:13 (GMT)
Type: Win32 worm Last Updated:15 Jun 2009 19:18:13 (GMT)
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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W32/Autoit-CV is a worm. W32/Autoit-CV spreads via usb drive by creating and replacing existing executable on the USB drive with a copy of itself and creating a related autorun.inf which is detected as W32/Autoit-BP.

When the application is installed the following files are created:

<System>\KHATRA.exe
<Windows>\system\gHost.exe
<Windows>\inf\Autoplay.inF
<Windows>\Tasks\At1.job
<Windows>\Xplorer.exe
<Windows>\KHATARNAKH.exe
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\(Empty).LNK

The following registry entries are created to run KHATRA.exe and Xplorer.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Xplorer = C:\WINDOWS\Xplorer.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\G_Host = "C:\WINDOWS\System\gHost.exe" /Reproduce
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\load = C:\WINDOWS\system32\KHATRA.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Taskman = C:\WINDOWS\system32\KHATRA.exe

Additional registry entries are created under:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\KHATRA

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