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Troj/Agent-FW

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Agent.qe
  • BackDoor-AWQ.b
  • PWSteal.Trojan
  • TSPY_DRAGENT.A
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 14 December 2005 22:25:37 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Agent-FW includes password stealing functionality and functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When installed Troj/Agent-FW copies itself to <Windows>\explcrer.exe

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

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
pcc
<Windows>\explcrer.exe

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