Sophos

Troj/WoW-KA

Aliases
  • PWS-WoW
  • trojan
  • TROJ_NSPM.ZZ
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from November 2007 (4.23)
Protection available since 21 September 2007 13:07:16 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/WoW-KA is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/WoW-KA copies itself to <System>\avpo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\b88d9jce.sys
<Temp>\zjtxwj.dll
<System>\avpo0.dll

The file b88d9jce.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A. The rest are detected as Troj/WoW-KA.

The following registry entry is created to run avpo.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
avpa
<System>\avpo.exe

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