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Troj/Hupigo-AR

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from March 2008 (4.27)
Protection available since 1 February 2008 01:44:19 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Hupigo-AR is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Hupigo-AR copies itself to:

<Common Files>\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\tomskype.exe
<Root>\tomskype.exe
<System>\_tomskype.exe

and creates the following files:

<Root>\AutoRun.inf
<Common Files>\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\ReDelBat.bat

The file tomskype.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "Windows_service_XP", with a display name of "Windows_system_internet" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Windows_service_XP

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