[virusinfo] Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: Troj/Small-AG

  • From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: virusinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:40:35 -0700


From; Sophos Alert System:

Name: Troj/Small-AG
Aliases: TrojanDownloader.Win32.Small.fv, Win32/TrojanDownloader.Esepor.G
Type: Trojan
Date: 5 April 2004

A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is
available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated
into the May 2004 (3.81) 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.


Information about Troj/Small-AG can be found at:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsmallag.html
Description 
Troj/Small-AG will download and install a Trojan when executed. 
The installed Trojan will drop the hidden files TMKSRVU.EXE and XPLUGIN.DLL
into the Windows System folder and a small text file, HOSTS, into the
Windows folder upon execution. The following registry entry will be created:


HKLM\Software\TMKSoft\XPlugin\ 

This Trojan will attempt to connect to the following sites:
a1monitor.com
alltracksgone.com
allspamgone.com
adsgone.com
freepassbucks.com
webpower.com
WebPower.com
xxxod.net
online-dialer.com
coolwebsearch.com
umaxsearch.com
msn.com
altavista.com
yahoo.com
google.com 

Troj/Small-AG may also try to display adverts from these websites:
http://www.xxxod.net
http://connect.online-dialer.com
http://download.online-dialer.com
http://www.adultfriendfinder.com
http://www.freepassbucks.com 
 
This IDE file also includes detection for:

Troj/Achum-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojachuma.html
Troj/SdBot-YD
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsdbotyd.html
Troj/IrcBot-V
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojircbotv.html
W32/Mofei-D
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mofeid.html
W32/Agobot-ET
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotet.html
Troj/Sdbot-HN
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsdbothn.html
W32/Sdbot-HA
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotha.html
W32/Sonebot-B
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sonebotb.html

Download the IDE file from:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/small-ag.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

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new.
Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike
<mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe>
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/worm_removal.htm
See my Anti-Virus pages  http://virusinfo.hackfix.org/index
<virusinfo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe>
A Technical Support Alliance  and OWTA Charter Member 




Other related posts:

  • » [virusinfo] Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: Troj/Small-AG