W32/Poebot-P

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

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W32/Poebot-P is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/Poebot-P copies itself to <System>\iexplore.exe and creates the file jotji.bat in the current folder. The file jotji.bat harmless on its own and can be safely removed.

W32/Poebot-P will attempt to connect to a remote URL and may spread through network shares protected by weak passwords and other exploits including:

LSASS (MS04-011)
RPC-DCOM (MS04-012)
WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812)
WebDav (MS03-007)
Veritas (CAN-2004-1172)
Dameware (CAN-2003-1030)
PNP (MS05-039)
ASN.1 (MS04-007)

The following registry entry is created to run iexplore.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Internet Explorer
<System>\iexplore.exe

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