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Troj/Agent-HPA

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 2008 (4.34)
Protection available since 6 September 2008 17:31:21 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-HPA is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Agent-HPA copies itself to <Windows>\server.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run server.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
server
<Windows>\server.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{0F03D47H-D12J-2K7K-D3M0-2UF1PGHU6L85}
StubPath
<Windows>\server.exe

The following registry entry is changed to run server.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\userinit.exe,"<Windows>\server.exe

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