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Troj/IRCBot-WL

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.aaq
  • W32/Sdbot.worm.gen.ca
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2007 (4.20)
Protection available since 17 June 2007 06:50:08 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/IRCBot-WL is an IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/IRCBot-WL creates the files:

<Windows>\photos.zip - detected as Troj/IRCBot-WL
<System>\syshelps.dll - detected as Troj/IRCBot-WL

The following registry entry is created to run code exported by (07A01ECF-9D28-4B9C-A4D0-E439D416517F) on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad
syshelps
(07A01ECF-9D28-4B9C-A4D0-E439D416517F)

The file syshelps.dll is registered as a COM object, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\(07A01ECF-9D28-4B9C-A4D0-E439D416517F)

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