W32/IRCBot-WB

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

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W32/IRCBot-WB is an IRC and MSN backdoor worm for the Windows platform.

W32/IRCBot-WB spreads by sending a zipped copy of itself to other MSN users pretending to be a photo album.

W32/IRCBot-WB runs continuously in the background, accepting commands from a remote user.

When W32/IRCBot-WB is first run the following files are created:

<Windows>\photos.zip - zip file containing W32/IRCBot-WB
<System>\syshosts.dll - also detected as W32/IRCBot-WB

The following registry entry is created to run code exported by {AA61EB82-F4F2-44FF-BA49-68FDA4E60735} on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad
syshosts
{AA61EB82-F4F2-44FF-BA49-68FDA4E60735}

The file syshosts.dll is registered as a COM object, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\{AA61EB82-F4F2-44FF-BA49-68FDA4E60735

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