[virusinfo] Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: Troj/Loony-E
- From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: virusinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:35:51 -0700
From; Sophos Alert System:
Name: Troj/Loony-E
Aliases: Backdoor.SdBot.iw
Type: Trojan
Date: 20 April 2004
A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is
available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated
into the June 2004 (3.82) release of Sophos Anti-Virus.
Enterprise Manager and PureMessage customers will be
automatically protected at their next scheduled update.
At the time of writing, Sophos has received just one report of
this Trojan from the wild.
Note: The IDE issued for Troj/Loony-E at 14:34 GMT in 15 April
also contained detection for Troj/Keylog-P, Troj/Downldr-EA,
Troj/Inor-J, W32/Agobot-GM, W32/Sdbot-CO, Troj/StartPa-CP,
W32/Annil-A, W32/Agobot-GH, W32/Gobot-A, Troj/Nodfu-A and
W32/Agobot-LB. This IDE has now been updated to enhance
detection of W32/Agobot-LB.
Information about Troj/Loony-E can be found at:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojloonye.html
Description
Troj/Loony-E is a backdoor Trojan that allows unauthorised access and
control of the infected computer from a remote location via IRC channels.
Troj/Loony-E copies itself to the Windows system folder as SVSHOST.EXE and
creates the following registry entry in order to run itself on system
startup:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\svshostdriver
This IDE file also includes detection for:
Troj/Keylog-P
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojkeylogp.html
Troj/Downldr-EA
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdownldrea.html
Troj/Inor-J
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojinorj.html
W32/Agobot-GM
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotgm.html
W32/SdBot-CO
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotco.html
Troj/StartPa-CP
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpacp.html
W32/Annil-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32annila.html
W32/Agobot-GH
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotgh.html
W32/Gobot-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gobota.html
Troj/Nodfu-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojnodfua.html
W32/Agobot-LB
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotlb.html
Download the IDE file from:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/loony-e.ide
Download all the IDE files available for the current version of
Sophos Anti-Virus in a single compressed file. The file is
available in two formats:
Zip file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip
Self-extracting file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe
Read about how to use IDE files at
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/using.html
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