Sophos

VBS/Autorun-DR

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 29 April 2008 18:47:58 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

VBS/Autorun-DR is a worm which includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run VBS/Autorun-DR copies itself to:

<System>\wbem\xiao.vbs
<System>\xiao.vbs

and creates the file <Temp>\.pif.

The following registry entry is created to run xiao.vbs on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
Explorer
xiao.vbs

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