W32/Agobot-QT

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Win32 worm
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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W32/Agobot-QT is a worm with backdoor Trojan functionality.

W32/Agobot-QT connects to an IRC channel and listens for backdoor commands from a remote attacker. The worm may also spread to network shares with weak passwords or by DCC.

W32/Agobot-QT contains backdoor functionality including the ability to do any of the following:

- participate in denial of service attacks
- download updates and other files
- list, create and terminate processes and services
- provide a remote command shell
- log keypresses
- delete files
- delete network shares
- make registry changes
- steal system information
- send files by DCC
- exploit vulnerabilities
- monitor network traffic

W32/Agobot-QT also modifies the system HOSTS file in order to prevent access to certain anti-virus and other websites. W32/Agobot-QT is a worm with backdoor Trojan functionality.

W32/Agobot-QT connects to an IRC channel and listens for backdoor commands from a remote attacker. The worm may also spread to network shares with weak passwords or by DCC.

W32/Agobot-QT contains backdoor functionality including the ability to do any of the following:

- participate in denial of service attacks
- download updates and other files
- list, create and terminate processes and services
- provide a remote command shell
- log keypresses
- delete files
- delete network shares
- make registry changes
- steal system information
- send files by DCC
- exploit vulnerabilities
- monitor network traffic

W32/Agobot-QT also modifies the system HOSTS file in order to prevent access to the following web addresses:

avp.com
ca.com
customer.symantec.com
dispatch.mcafee.com
download.mcafee.com
f-secure.com
kaspersky.com
liveupdate.symantec.com
liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com
mast.mcafee.com
mcafee.com
my-etrust.com
nai.com
networkassociates.com
rads.mcafee.com
secure.nai.com
securityresponse.symantec.com
sophos.com
symantec.com
trendmicro.com
update.symantec.com
updates.symantec.com
us.mcafee.com
viruslist.com
www.avp.com
www.ca.com
www.f-secure.com
www.kaspersky.com
www.mcafee.com
www.my-etrust.com
www.nai.com
www.networkassociates.com
www.sophos.com
www.symantec.com
www.trendmicro.com
www.viruslist.com

When first run W32/Agobot-QT copies itself to the Windows system folder as SUPER.EXE and creates the following registry entries in order to run itself on system startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
super
super.exe

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
super
super.exe

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