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Troj/AgentM-Fam

Aliases
  • Proxy-Agent.af.gen
  • Backdoor.Win32.Agent.ctf
  • Trojan.Asprox
  • TROJ_ASPROX.C
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 8 January 2008 05:05:10 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
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Action

More Information

Troj/AgentM-Fam is a family of Trojans for the Windows platform.

Troj/AgentM-Fam may appear to be a new version of Macromedia Flash.
Troj/AgentM-Fam includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When Troj/AgentM-Fam is installed the following files are created:

<Temp>\_check32.bat
<Windows>\s32.txt
<System>\aspimgr.exe
<Windows>\ws386.ini

The file aspimgr.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "aspimgr", with a display name of "Microsoft ASPI Manager" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspimgr

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Sft

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