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Troj/RKAgen-D

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 16 February 2008 02:57:40 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/RKAgen-D is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/RKAgen-D is installed the following files are created:

<System>\drivers\symavc32.sys
<Temp>\_it.bat

The file symavc32.sys is detected as Troj/RKAgen-Fam. The file _it.bat is a clean script to delete the folder the Trojan ran from once it has deleted itself.

The file symavc32.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "symavc32", with a display name of "symavc32" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\symavc32

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