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Troj/Agent-CH

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Agent.w
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 24 February 2005 12:14:29 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-CH is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Agent-CH will copy itself to a folder it creates named yemarvd within the Windows system folder as sysmon.exe.

Troj/Agent-CH will set the following registry entries to ensure that it run on Windows logon or startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
yemarvd
C:\WINDOWS\System32\yemarvd\sysmon.exe

Troj/Agent-CH will also set the following registry entry:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
yemarvdc

Troj/Agent-CH will also create a DLL in the Windows system folder named yemarvdn.dll. This file is currently detected by Sophos as Troj/Iyus-Fam.

Troj/Agent-CH will modify the HOSTS file in an attempt to block access to a predefined list of Anti-virus vendors. For example:

127.0.0.1 downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com
127.0.0.1 downloads2.kaspersky-labs.com
127.0.0.1 downloads3.kaspersky-labs.com
127.0.0.1 downloads4.kaspersky-labs.com
127.0.0.1 download.mcafee.com
127.0.0.1 liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com
127.0.0.1 liveupdate.symantec.com
127.0.0.1 update.symantec.com

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