Summary

Agent.aa is a data stealing trojan that tries to steal account information from the infected computer. It steals cached credientials from the system and monitors active web browsers, logging keystrokes sent to online banks. It can also take screenshots of browser windows.

Additional Details

Installation to system

Agent.aa file is a PE executable image, packed with executable compressor PECompact. The packed size is about 37 kilobytes.

When run, the trojan copies itself under Windows directory using the name 'mscsvc.exe'. It installs the following registry key to make sure it will be executed next time the system is started:

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "mscsvc.exe" = "%WinDir%\mscsvc.exe"

For example, %WinDir% is 'C:\Windows' in default installation of Windows XP.

Data stealing

The trojan monitors active Internet Explorer instances. When a web page containing certain domain names is visited, the trojan logs data from the web page, including key strokes. Domain names are mostly online banks. It may also take screenshots of browser windows while visiting these domains.

Here is the list of domain names that are monitored (in alphabetical order):

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/agent_aa.txt

Note that it doesn't automatically mean that the listed online banks are affected. Most online banks use proper one-time password authentication schemes, and are thus not in danger.

The trojan also tries to fetch cached accounting information from the infected computer, such as

Internet Explorer FTP usernames/passwords Outlook Account Manager Passwords HTTP usernames/passwords IMAP, POP3 usernames/passwords

Also, some generic system information, such as installed software, running process etc. are gathered from the infected system.

Stealed data is sent to server 'radconsulting.net' using HTTP POST requests.

Detection

[FSAV_Database_Version]
2005-04-26_01

Technical Details: Jarkko Turkulainen; May 03th, 2005;