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Troj/IRCBot-ABA

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from May 2008 (4.29)
Protection available since 2 April 2008 10:21:16 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/IRCBot-ABA is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/IRCBot-ABA runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

When Troj/IRCBot-ABA is installed the following files are created:

<Temp>\wnd.exe
<System>\wnd32.exe

The files wnd32.exe and wnd.exe are detected as Troj/IRCBot-AAX.

The following registry entries are created to run wnd32.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows MSN Updates
<System>\wnd32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows MSN Updates
<System>\wnd32.exe

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