Sophos

Troj/Agent-HEF

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 July 2008 14:44:30 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

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

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

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

<System>\ntos.exe
<System>\wsnpoem\audio.dll
<System>\wsnpoem\video.dll

The following registry entry is changed to run ntos.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\userinit.exe,<System>\ntos.exe,

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