Sophos

W32/Sdbot-AJQ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 30 January 2006 14:16:05 (GMT)
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W32/Sdbot-AJQ is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Sdbot-AJQ 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/Sdbot-AJQ copies itself to <System>\scrnsund.pif.

The following registry entries are created to run scrnsund.pif on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Crnsavsund
scrnsund.pif

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Crnsavsund
scrnsund.pif

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Crnsavsund
scrnsund.pif

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