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W32/Agent-LRU

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 4 November 2009 23:51:18 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Agent-LRU is a worm for the Windows platform.

When W32/Agent-LRU is installed it copies itself to <System>\kavo.exe.

When W32/Agent-LRU is installed the following files are also created:

<Temp>\eyi.sys
<Temp>\zfzd.dll
<System>\kavo0.dll

The file eyi.sys is detected as Mal/Vanti-A and Mal/RootKit-.A.
The file zfzd.dll is detected as Mal/EncPk-CE.
The file kavo0.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen

The following registry entry is created to run kavo.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
kava
<System>\kavo.exe

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