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Troj/Agent-EY

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

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 7 November 2005 11:47:14 (GMT)
Last updated 25 November 2005 13:35:31 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-EY is a downloader and information stealer Trojan for the Windows platform.

The Trojan will copy itself to the Windows system folder as "perfmnt.exe" .

The Trojan creates the following registry entries:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe
Debugger
<path of Trojan EXE>

Troj/Agent-EY uses Internet Explorer to open a predefined URL without the user's knowledge, and download a file as "update.php" to the Temporary Internet Files folder.

The Trojan collects certain information and submits it to a predefined URL.

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