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W32/Autorun-HB

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 5 August 2008 01:39:13 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Autorun-HB is a worm for the Windows platform.

This worm copies itself to removable storage devices, such as USB sticks.

When first run, the worm copies itself to the following on a removable drive:

<Recycler>\S-<random numbers>\xop32.exe

W32/Autorun-HB also creates the following files:
autorun.inf (detected as Mal/AutoInf-A)
<Recycler>\S-<random numbers>\Desktop.ini (not malicious)

The files xop32.exe is registered as a COM object, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

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