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Troj/Agent-HFA

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 9 July 2008 06:28:14 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Agent-HFA runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

When first run Troj/Agent-HFA copies itself to <Windows>\WinKettle.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows Kernel Log
WinKettle.exe

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