Submission Summary:

• Submission details:
• Submission received: 18 February 2009, 19:01:01
• Processing time: 5 min 56 sec
• Submitted sample:
• File MD5: 0xD8A9D9928E5C56C6CBD3DF2307A694AD
• File SHA-1: 0xDF9CBFDBC26236C1F3FD21A4C1DDCAFA347554AE
• Filesize: 23,040 bytes
• Alias:
• Trojan.Pandex [Symantec]
• Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.apnw [Kaspersky Lab]
• FakeAlert-AG.gen.b [McAfee]
• Mal/Pushdo-A [Sophos]
• TrojanDropper:Win32/Cutwail [Microsoft]
• Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Cutwail.AL [Ikarus]

• Summary of the findings:

What's been found	Severity Level
Creates a startup registry entry.
Contains characteristics of an identified security risk.

Technical Details:

Possible Security Risk

• Attention! The following threat categories were identified:

Threat Category	Description
	A program that downloads files to the local computer that may represent security risk
	A malicious trojan horse or bot that may represent security risk for the compromised system and/or its network environment

File System Modifications

• The following file was created in the system:

#	Filename(s)	File Size	File Hash	Alias
1	%System%\reader.exe [file and pathname of the sample #1]	23,040 bytes	MD5: 0xD8A9D9928E5C56C6CBD3DF2307A694AD SHA-1: 0xDF9CBFDBC26236C1F3FD21A4C1DDCAFA347554AE	Trojan.Pandex [Symantec] Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.apnw [Kaspersky Lab] FakeAlert-AG.gen.b [McAfee] Mal/Pushdo-A [Sophos] TrojanDropper:Win32/Cutwail [Microsoft] Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Cutwail.AL [Ikarus]

• Note:
• %System% is a variable that refers to the System folder. By default, this is C:\Windows\System (Windows 95/98/Me), C:\Winnt\System32 (Windows NT/2000), or C:\Windows\System32 (Windows XP).

Memory Modifications

• There were new processes created in the system:

Process Name	Process Filename	Main Module Size
reader.exe	%System%\reader.exe	32,768 bytes
[filename of the sample #1]	[file and pathname of the sample #1]	32,768 bytes

• There was a new memory page created in the address space of the system process(es):

Process Name	Process Filename	Allocated Size
svchost.exe	%System%\svchost.exe	4,096 bytes

Registry Modifications

• The following Registry Key was created:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AGProtect

• The newly created Registry Value is:
• [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
• reader = "%System%\reader.exe"

so that reader.exe runs every time Windows starts

Other details

• There was registered attempt to establish connection with the remote host. The connection details are: