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Troj/Dloadr-AOX

Aliases
  • TROJ_AGENT.FJE
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 13 October 2006 17:03:06 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/Dloadr-AOX is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

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

When Troj/Dloadr-AOX is installed it tries to download DLL components into the following files:

<current folder>\Update\AdPutHelper.dll
<current folder>\Update\WinServer.dll

These DLL files are detected as Troj/Dloadr-AOX.

The AdPutHelper.dll DLL file is registered as a COM object, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\AdPutHelper.AdHelper\
HKCR\CLSID\{631EDC67-F035-49BA-B8BC-983B474E9BB4}

Troj/Dloadr-AOX also creates the file <current folder>\AdPutHelper.ini.

The following registry entry is also created:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
AdHelper

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