Sophos

Troj/Krepper-Z

Aliases
  • Downloader-ARQ
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2006 (4.02)
Protection available since 15 December 2005 00:57:51 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Krepper-Z is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Krepper-Z includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP. The Trojan may also download and execute further files.

When first run Troj/Krepper-Z copies itself to <Windows>\inet20003\services.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run Troj/Krepper-Z on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
run
<Windows>\inet20003\services.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
xp_system
<Windows>\inet20003\services.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
xp_system
<Windows>\inet20003\services.exe

The following registry entries are set:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Object\
(5321E378-FFAD-4999-8C62-03CA8155F0B3)

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Enable Browser Extensions
yes

Troj/Krepper-Z also adds the following to the system.ini file:

Windows
Windows\load=C:\WINDOWS\inet20003\services.exe

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