TR/Spy.Agent.OR.4 - Trojan

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Virus:	TR/Spy.Agent.OR.4
Date discovered:	02/11/2006
Type:	Trojan
In the wild:	No
Reported Infections:	Low
Distribution Potential:	Low
Damage Potential:	Medium
Static file:	Yes
File size:	81.408 Bytes
MD5 checksum:	58d2ae5f9c90674c1fc3fb1195959f5c
VDF version:	6.36.00.205 - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:58 (GMT+1)
IVDF version:	6.36.00.225 - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:58 (GMT+1)

General Aliases:
   • Kaspersky: Trojan-Spy.Win32.Agent.or
   • Sophos: Troj/Agent-DPH

Platforms / OS:
   • Windows 95
   • Windows 98
   • Windows 98 SE
   • Windows NT
   • Windows ME
   • Windows 2000
   • Windows XP
   • Windows 2003

Side effects:
   • Registry modification
   • Steals information

Files It copies itself to the following location:
• %WINDIR%\svchost.exe

Registry The following registry key is added in order to run the process after reboot:

– HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\
Run
• "svchost.exe"="%WINDIR%\svchost.exe"

Backdoor Contact server:
The following:
• http://akella.biz/**********

As a result it may send some information. This is done via the HTTP GET request on a PHP script.

Sends information about:
• Collected information described in stealing section

Stealing – A logging routine is started after a website is visited:
   • http://search.slimtoolbar.com

– A logging routine is started after the following website is visited, which contains one of the following substrings in the URL:
   • http://search.yahoo.
   • http://www.msn.
   • http://www.yahoo.
   • http://www.google.

– It captures:
    • Keystrokes

Miscellaneous Mutex:
It creates the following Mutex:
• msupdgt2

File details Programming language:
The malware program was written in MS Visual C++.

Runtime packer:
In order to aggravate detection and reduce size of the file it is packed with the following runtime packer:
• UPX

See a brief description here.

Description inserted by Bogdan Iliuta on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:03 (GMT+1)
Description updated by Bogdan Iliuta on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:24 (GMT+1)

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