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W32/Anig-A

Aliases
  • Worm.Win32.Anig.b
  • W32.HLLW.Anig
  • WORM_ANIG.A
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 6 February 2004 13:35:28 (GMT)
Last updated 4 July 2008 15:45:52 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Anig-A is a worm that can spread by copying itself over network shares.
W32/Anig-A can also be used to steal passwords.

W32/Anig-A copies itself to <Windows>\System32 using its original filename and
creates the following registry entry in order to run on system restart:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Osa32

W32/Anig-A attempts to spread by copying itself to the share ADMIN$ on remote
machines.

W32/Anig-A may drop a DLL file with keylogging functionality called GinaDLL.DLL
and open port 5190 in order to receive remote commands.

W32/Anig-A registers itself as a service called Distributed File Controller
by creating the following registry entries:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\dfcsvc

DependOnGroup = ""
DependOnService = RpcSS
DisplayName = Distributed File Controller
Error Control = 0x0
ImagePath = <filename> /dfcsvc
ObjectName = LocalSystem
Start = 0x2
Type = 0x110

W32/Anig-A may also create the following registry entries:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

GinaDll = ntgina.dll
Ram32Data
Ram32ID
Ram32Group

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