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TROJ_AGENT.NICE
Overview

Malware type: Trojan

Aliases: No Alias Found

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:


Reported infections:

Damage potential:

Medium

Distribution potential:

Low

Description: 

To get a one-glance comprehensive view of the behavior of this malware, refer to the Threat Diagram shown below.

TROJ_AGENT.NICE Behavior Diagram

Malware Overview

This Trojan may be dropped by the following malware:

It drops a file which Trend Micro detects as TROJ_DLOADR.TXWQ. It then executes the dropped file. As a result, malicious routines of the dropped file are exhibited on the affected system. It then deletes the dropped file.

It uses the MoveFileExA(DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) API so that several files are dropped upon system reboot. Trend Micro detects some of the dropped files as TROJ_DLOADR.TXWQ.

It sets the time of the said file to April 27, 2003, 10:00:00 PM to trick users that it is an old file from the system. It also creates a mutex to ensure that only one instance of itself is running in memory.

For additional information about this threat, see:
Solution
Technical Details

Description created: May. 7, 2009 3:57:44 AM GMT -0800

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