Name :	Agent.BAO
Size:	(11,230 bytes)
Category:	Trojan
Type:	Downloader, Trojan
Platform:	Win32
Date of Discovery:	November 06, 2006

Agent.BAO, a variant of Agent, is a Trojan. Agent.BAO downloads different trojans and backdoors and activate them on an affected system without user's approval.

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Agent.BAO is a trojan downloader. It connects to a specified site on the Internet and gets more malicious download links.

Upon execution, it drops a copy of itself from the following location:



It also creates a service with the following service name:



It adds the following service registry entry:



It downloads a text file from the following site:



This text file contains download links of other malware.

Below is the list of some of the download sites gathered and the corresponding detection name of the downloaded files:


Note: The download links may vary depending on the content of the downloaded text file.

Moreover, Agent.BAO also creates a file named autorun.inf in the directory where the copy of the trojan is located. This is used to automatically execute the trojan when the folder is opened.