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Troj/Agent-GOE

Aliases
  • BDS/SpamBot.Gen
  • TROJ_AGENT.BTJ
  • Backdoor:Win32/Rustock.gen!C
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 29 January 2008 18:29:04 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

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

When Troj/Agent-GOE is installed it creates the file <System>\nested.sys.

The file nested.sys is detected as Mal/RKRustok-A.

The file nested.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "nested". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nested

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