Sophos

W32/AutoRun-GB

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 8 July 2008 07:19:03 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/AutoRun-GB is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/AutoRun-GB copies itself to
<Windows>\Tasks\csrss.exe,
<Windows>\Tasks\<Filename>.bat
and <Windows>\hackshen.exe

W32/AutoRun-GB creates the following files:
<Windows>\Tasks\wsock32.dll which is detected as Mal/Heuri-E
<Windows>\Tasks\At1.job
<Windows>\Tasks\hackshen.vbs
<Windows>\mfxixue.ini

W32/AutoRun-GB attempts to copy itself to removable drives and creates an autorun.inf file in those drives in order to execute when they are inserted into a computer running the Windows operating system.

W32/AutoRun-GB looks for process names related to security software and attempt to terminate them.

W32/AutoRun-GB also spreads to other network computers.

W32/AutoRun-GB downloads following files from preconfigured URLs then run them:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\wincap.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\arps.com
<Temp>\AECJ78BrDs.pif
C:\_default.pif

W32/AutoRun-GB looks for GHO files and attempt to delete them.

W32/AutoRun-GB changes host setting to deny the access of anitvirus websites

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{H9I12RB03-AB-B70-7-11d2-9CBD-0O00FS7AH6-9E2121BHJLK}
stubpath
%windir%\Tasks\hackshen.vbs

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