RE: New Trojan

From: Rob Shein (shoten_at_starpower.net)
Date: 10/27/03

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    To: "'Damian Gerow'" <damian@sentex.net>, <incidents@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:19:48 -0500

    An option; restrict rights for
    HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run so that new keys cannot
    be created, by anyone. Remove the key used by the trojan. Reboot, and
    return permissions for that part of the registry to prior settings.

    A thought: considering that this is a proxy trojan, could it have any
    relationship to the alleged instances of a Polish company offering stealthed
    spamming services (and god knows what other forms of anonymization)?

    >
    > On startup, the Trojan is started via registry entries.
    > Since it is a DLL, it needs rundll32.exe to start. When it
    > starts, it hooks itself into (I
    > think) *every* running process on the system, so you can't
    > actually kill it without shutting down the system.
    >
    > It checks the registry keys periodically (configurable, I
    > believe), and if they are missing, it adds them back in again.
    >

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