Sophos

Troj/Haxdoor-AK

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 26 September 2005 22:43:45 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

Troj/Haxdoor-AK is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Haxdoor-AK allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary commands. The Trojan may download and run further malicious code.

The Trojan uses stealthing techniques to avoid being terminated.

When Troj/Haxdoor-AK is installed the following files are created:

<Windows system folder>\nodantivir.sys
<Windows system folder>\mcfG7A.dll

These files are also detected as Troj/Haxdoor-AK. The file nodantivir.sys provides stealthing functionality and has been detected as Troj/Haxdor-Gen since version 3.93.

The following registry entries are created to run code exported by mcfG7A.dll on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\mcfG7A
DllName
mcfG7A.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\mcfG7A
Startup
mcfG7A

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\mcfG7A
Impersonate
1

The file nodantivir.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "nodantivir", with a display name of "NOD AV service". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nodantivir\

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