Sophos

Troj/IRCBot-ZL

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 5 December 2007 23:39:11 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

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

Troj/IRCBot-ZL 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 first run Troj/IRCBot-ZL copies itself to <System>\ne.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
(default)
ne.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
(default)
ne.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
(default)
ne.exe

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