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Troj/DwnLdr-HEI

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 12 June 2008 05:24:49 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/DwnLdr-HEI is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/DwnLdr-HEI creates the files:
<System>\WinNt64.dll - detected as Troj/DwnLdr-HEI
<System>\drivers\Ucu24.sys - detected as Troj/DwnLdr-HEI

The file <System>\drivers\Ucu24.sys is registered as a system service with the name "Ucu24" with a description of "Ucu24" and a startup type of automatic. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ucu24\
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_UCU24\
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network\Ucu24.sys\

The file <System>\WinNt64.dll is registered as a Windows DLL and the following registry entries are set to run itself on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WinNt64
Asynchronous
0

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WinNt64
DLLName
WinNt64.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WinNt64
ID
<number>

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WinNt64
Impersonate
0

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WinNt64
StartShell
WLEventStartShell

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WinNt64
Unique
<random characters>

The following registry entries are also set:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\Ucu24.sys
(default)
Driver

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network\Ucu24.sys
(default)
Driver

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