Sophos

W32/AutoRun-FD

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 13 June 2008 07:11:55 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/AutoRun-FD runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

When first run W32/AutoRun-FD copies itself to <Administrator>\lsass.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
LSA Shellu
<Administrator>\lsass.exe

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