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W32/Sohana-AJ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 4 September 2007 09:27:23 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Sohana-AJ is a worm for the Windows platform.

When W32/Sohana-AJ is installed it copies itself to the following location:

<System>\nod.exe

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
ActiveScript32
<System>\nod.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ActiveScript32
<System>\nod.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
ActiveScript32
<System>\nod.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
ActiveScript32
<System>\nod.exe

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