Sophos

Troj/Shellot-L

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from December 2006 (4.12)
Protection available since 6 November 2006 05:23:59 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Shellot-L is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

The Trojan has the functionalities to :

- communicate with a remote server via HTTP
- allow unauthorised access to the computer
- hides files, processes and registry entries

When run, the Trojan copies itself to <System>\<random>.exe and creates the file <System>\<random numbers>.dll. The file <random numbers>.dll is detected as Troj/Shellot-L.

The Trojan sets the following registry entries:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
<Non Roman Characters>
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
<Non Roman Characters>
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
<Non Roman Characters>
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
<Non Roman Characters>
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
<Non Roman Characters>
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
<Non Roman Characters>
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
<Non Roman Characters>
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
<Non Roman Characters>="<System>\<random>.exe

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