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Troj/Agent-MS

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.wd
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 5 January 2006 14:22:37 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

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

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

<System>\mscms.exe

The file mscms.exe is detected as Troj/Dloadr-AAH.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
mscms
<System>\mscms.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Script\Settings\

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