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W32/Autorun-EP

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 June 2008 08:17:57 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Autorun-EP is a worn for the Windows platform.

W32/Autorun-EP includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run W32/Autorun-EP copies itself to:

<Windows>\regsvr.exe
<System>\regsvr.exe
<System>\winhelp.exe

and creates the following files:

<System>\setting.ini
<System>\setup.ini
<Windows>\winhelp.ini

The file setup.ini is detected as Troj/Agent-GXM.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Yahoo Messengger
<System>\regsvr.exe

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
System
Winhelp.exe

The following registry entry is set, disabling system software:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DisableRegistryTools
1

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NofolderOptions
0

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DisableTaskMgr
0

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell
Explorer.exe rundll.exe

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