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Troj/Agent-GUI

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from May 2008 (4.29)
Protection available since 28 March 2008 22:46:56 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

When first run Troj/Agent-GUI copies itself to <User>\Application Data\<random name>.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run <random name>.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run
<random key>
<User>\Application Data\<random key>\<random name>.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\Uninstall

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