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Backdoor:IRC/Zapchast.H
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: Backdoor.IRC.Zapchast (Kaspersky) IRC/Flood.mirc (Kaspersky) Mal/Zapchas-A (Sophos)
Summary
Backdoor:IRC/Zapchast.H opens a backdoor on compromised system, installs the mirc chat client, and uses that client to connect to an IRC server which allows attackers to remotely administer the Trojan.
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