Sophos

Troj/Manager-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 26 October 2004 17:15:38 (GMT)
Last updated 27 October 2004 13:49:22 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Manager-A is a backdoor Trojan.

The Trojan listens for backdoor commands on a random port number.

Troj/Manager-A copies itself to the Windows system folder as TASKMGN.EXE and sets the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Windows Task Manager = "C:\windows\system32\taskmgn.exe"

Troj/Manager-A also creates registry entries in the following location:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\DMSDOS\

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