Sophos

Troj/Litebot-C

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 August 2005 15:57:03 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

Troj/Litebot-C is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Litebot-C 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.

The Trojan contains functionality to download and run further malicious code.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Litebot-C on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
5p4m
<path to Trojan>

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