Sophos

W32/AutoIt-AJ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2009 (4.38)
Protection available since 3 December 2008 20:00:50 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/AutoIt-AJ is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/AutoIt-AJ copies itself to <System>\csrcs.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\jbxupuf
<Temp>\suicide.bat

The following registry entry is created to run csrcs.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run
csrcs
<System>\csrcs.exe

The following registry entry is changed to run csrcs.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell
Explorer.exe csrcs.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Hidden
2

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
ShowSuperHidden
0

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
SuperHidden
0

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DRM\amty

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