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Troj/Agent-LNS

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 7 November 2009 14:22:57 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

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

When first run Troj/Agent-LNS copies itself to:

<Program Files>\Adobe\acrotray.exe
<System>\ctfmon.exe

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Adobe_Reader
<Program Files>\adobe\acrotray.exe

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