Sophos

Troj/Cass-A

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.qg
  • Adware-CasClient
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from October 2005 (3.98)
Protection available since 1 July 2005 16:56:03 (GMT)
Last updated 19 August 2005 13:52:02 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Cass-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Cass-A includes functionality to download, install and run new software.

When first run Troj/Cass-A copies itself to <Program Files>\CasStub\casstub.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
CasStub
<Program Files>\CasStub\casstub.exe -run

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\CAS\Client\

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