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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 27 November 2005 16:19:08 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 27 November 2005 21:42:04 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Troj/IRCBot-AO is an IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
Troj/IRCBot-AO has functionality to connect to IRC channels and to download and execute EXE files from remote URLs.
Samples of Troj/IRCBot-AO appear to have been massmailed out. Troj/IRCBot-AO is an IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
Troj/IRCBot-AO has functionality to connect to IRC channels via port 8080 and to download and execute EXE files from remote URLs.
Samples of Troj/IRCBot-AO appear to have been massmailed out.
Troj/IRCBot-AO moves itself to <System>\smschk.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run smschk.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
EventApplicationCmd
smschk.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
EventApplicationCmd
smschk.exe
Troj/IRCBot-AO attempts to terminate the following security-related processes:
Ad-watch.exe
ccApp.exe
ccEvtMgr.exe
gcasDTServ.exe
gcasServ.exe
kpf4gui.exe
kpf4ss.exe
mcshield.exe
mcupdate.exe
mcvsrte.exe
mcvsshld.exe
MRT.exe
NAVW32.exe
nmain.exe
SAVSCAN.EXE
SNDSrvc.exe
SymWSC.exe
TeaTimer.exe
