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W32/Inject-H

Aliases
  • Trojan.Win32.Inject.t
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Peer-to-peer
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 27 March 2006 12:55:03 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Inject-H is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Inject-H spreads via file sharing on Peer-to-peer networks.

W32/Inject-H 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/Inject-H copies itself to:

\My Downloads\WinXP Hack.exe
<Program Files>\Emule\incomingWinXP Hack.exe
<Program Files>\Limewire\SharedMicrosoft WinXP Crack full.scr
<Program Files>\eDonkey2000\incomingMicrosoft WinXP Crack full.scr
<System>\msnsrcdv.exe

The following registry entries are created to run msnsrcdv.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
AdobeReaderPro
msnsrcdv.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
AdobeReaderPro
msnsrcdv.exe

The following registry entry is set:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
AdobeReaderPro
msnsrcdv.exe

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