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Troj/Agent-ZA

Aliases
  • TrojanDownloader.Win32.Agent.z
  • BackDoor-BDD
  • Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.NAB
  • TROJ_AGENT.Z3
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Protection available since 23 June 2004 15:44:57 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-ZA is a Trojan which runs in the background as a service process and attempts to allow unauthorised access to the computer.

The Trojan creates an entry in the registry at the following location to run itself on system restart:

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\__NS_Service\ImagePath

The Trojan creates the following registry entries:

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY___NS_SERVICE\0000\
Service= __NS_Service

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY___NS_SERVICE\0000\
DeviceDesc= Network Security Service

Troj/Agent-ZA also deletes the registry entry

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\
AppInit_DLLs .

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