[virusinfo] Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: Troj/Agobot-HZ

  • From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: virusinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:05:27 -0700


From; Sophos Alert System:

Name: Troj/Agobot-HZ
Type: Trojan
Date: 5 May 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.

Customers using Enterprise Manager, PureMessage and any of the
Sophos small business solutions 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/Agobot-HZ can be found at:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagobothz.html
Description 
Troj/Agobot-HZ is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform. 
Troj/Agobot-HZ allows a malicious user remote access to an infected
computer. 

In order to run automatically when Windows starts up Troj/Agobot-HZ creates
the following registry entries: 

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\File System
Service=wmiprvsc.exe 

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\File System
Service=wmiprvsc.exe. 
 

This IDE file also includes detection for:

W32/Sdbot-JZ
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotjz.html
IRC/Krisworm-B
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/irckriswormb.html
W32/Famus-B
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32famusb.html
Troj/Psyme-T
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymet.html
W32/Agobot-OY
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotoy.html
W32/Agobot-HI
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobothi.html
W32/Francette-I
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32francettei.html
W32/Agobot-HJ
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobothj.html
Troj/Servu-D
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojservud.html

Download the IDE file from:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/agobothz.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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