Sophos

Troj/Bckdr-QHR

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from June 2007 (4.18)
Protection available since 26 April 2007 06:01:03 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Bckdr-QHR is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bckdr-QHR includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Troj/Bckdr-QHR copies itself to:

<Windows>\svhst32.exe
<System>\updates.exe
<System>\wandrv.exe

The following registry entries are created to run svhst32.exe and wandrv.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
run
<System>\wandrv.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Server Process
<Windows>\svhst32.exe -a

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