Sophos

Troj/Mailspam-O

Aliases
  • Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.eet
  • Backdoor.Win32.Agent.eiw
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 7 February 2008 09:40:16 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Mailspam-O is a spam generating Trojan for the Windows platform.

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

When Troj/Mailspam-O is installed the following files are created:

<Temp>\_check32.bat - clean, can be deleted
<Windows>\s32.txt - clean, can be deleted
<System>\aspimgr.exe - also detected as Troj/Mailspam-O
<Windows>\ws386.ini - clean, can be deleted

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

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspimgr

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Sft

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