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Troj/IRCBot-AAH

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 11 February 2008 20:48:50 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/IRCBot-AAH is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/IRCBot-AAH runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

When first run Troj/IRCBot-AAH copies itself to <System>\syscfg32.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run syscfg32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Configuration Loader
syscfg32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Configuration Loader
syscfg32.exe

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