Trojan:W32/Agent.ARKD attempts to connect to a remote host and download an additional malicious file onto the infected system.
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The associated detections Trojan.Agent.ARKD and Trojan.Generic.5594507 both triggered on a DLL file named setup50045.fon, which was associated with a malware attack.
Upon execution, setup50045.fon drops a copy of itself in the following directory:
It will then set itself as a launch point service by setting the following values in the registry:
Once installed, the malware attempts to establish connection with the following remote hosts:
It downloads a malicious executable file from the link below:
The downloaded executable is detected as Trojan.Agent.ARKE.
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