The worm propagates through emails harvested from infected hosts, and has a backdoor functionality allowing its author to perform the following actions if a successful remote connection is established - attempts to create a botnet, has keylogging functionality, and can also perform DDoS attacks as well as send spam,

Despite the similarities of its features with the ones of OSX.Trojan.iServices.A (the iBotnet OS X malware), Tored is not currently spreading in the wild, in fact some vendors are calling it lame and state that it will never spread successfully due to the bugs in its code, next to the the spelling mistakes within the messages it uses for email spreading