Sophos

Troj/SpyAgent-H

Aliases
  • Win32/Spy.Agent.PZ
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 March 2008 15:04:43 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

Troj/SpyAgent-H is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/SpyAgent-H includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When Troj/SpyAgent-H is installed the following files are created:

<System>\ntos.exe
<System>\wsnpoem\audio.dll
<System>\wsnpoem\video.dll

The file ntos.exe is detected as Mal/Behav-191.

The following registry entry is changed to run ntos.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\userinit.exe,<System>\ntos.exe,

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