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Troj/Agent-HRI

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 19 September 2008 01:05:00 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When first run, Troj/Agent-HRI copies itself to <System>\mscdexntx.exe and sets the following registry to run itself on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows_NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\userinit.exe, <System>\mscdexntx.exe

Troj/Agent-HRI sets the following registry entry:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft
version
<random 8-letter string>

Troj/Agent-HRI attempts to download and execute a file from a remote website. At the time of writing this file is detected as Mal/EncPk-DG.

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