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Troj/Pndoor-A

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 22 August 2005 13:55:21 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

Troj/Pndoor-A allows unauthenticated remote access to the infected computer on port 4001. On NT-based versions of Windows (NT,2000,XP) the Trojan may be installed as a service process named "SSDP Discovery Service Locator" with the description "Manages the UPnP devices database". This creates registry entries under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ssdpdb

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