Sophos

W32/Autorun-AD

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2008 (4.26)
Protection available since 28 December 2007 07:06:03 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/AutoRun-AD is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/AutoRun-AD copies itself to <System>\kavo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\k7q.sys
<Temp>\n2mmf2qu.dll - detected as W32/AutoRun-AD.
<System>\kavo0.dll

The file kavo0.dll is detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen and the file k7q.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
kava
<System>\kavo.exe

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