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Troj/Agent-HDE

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 23 June 2008 18:58:06 (GMT)
Last updated 25 June 2008 22:44:58 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When Troj/Agent-HDE is installed the following files are created:

<Temp>\<random letters>.dll
<System>\<random letters>.dIl

These files are also detected as Troj/Agent-HDE.

Troj/Agent-HDE also drops a number of clean data files to <System>\<random letters>.dat.

The file <System>\<random letters>.dIl is registered as a COM object and shell extension, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\{<clsid>}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\<dll name>

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