Troj/Rbot-XV

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Trojan
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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Troj/Rbot-XV is an IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

The Trojan copies itself to a file named wmplayer.exe in the Windows system folder and creates the following registry entries:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Windows Media Player
"wmplayer.exe"

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows Media Player
"wmplayer.exe"

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Windows Media Player
"wmplayer.exe"

Troj/Rbot-XV can be controlled by a remote attacker over IRC channels. The Trojan can be instructed by a remote user to perform the following functions:

upload, download and execute arbitrary files
start a remote shell

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