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F-Secure Malware Information Pages: Trojan:W32/Agent.SQT
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Name : Trojan:W32/Agent.SQT
Detection Names : Trojan.Win32.Agent.sqt
Size:41472
Type:Trojan
Category:Malware
Platform:W32
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Summary
Trojans are malicious programs that pretend be to benign. Trojans do not replicate themselves.
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Additional Details
Agent.SQT arrives as an attachment to spammed e-mail messages containing the following subjects:

  • Something hot
  • Hot news
  • Paris Hilton
  • Hot pictures

Here is an example message body:

  • Good afternoon.

    Wanted!
    Do you look this film? Do you wanna see more?
    Censored cadrs from it where James McAvoy fucks Angelina Jolie!

    Bye.

It uses the filename censored.zip for the attachment which contains an executable copy called censored.exe.

Files detected as Trojan.Win32.Agent.sqt share many of the same characteristics as Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.rek.

See the description for Trojan-Dropper:W32/Agent.REK for details.

The dropped [Random Filename].sys file in the %System%\drivers\ is already detected as Trojan.Win32.Agent.sps. Examples of random filenames are Lhx72.sys and Sho00.sys.

Note: C:\WINDOWS\System32 is the default path represented by %System%.

Furthermore, it may also try to connect and download from:

  • 209.66.122.238
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Last Modified: June 30, 2008