W32/Rbot-AAB is an IRC backdoor Trojan and network worm.
W32/Rbot-AAB may spread to remote network shares protected by weak passwords and computers vulnerable to common exploits. The worm also opens up a backdoor, allowing unauthorised remote access to infected computers via the IRC network, while running in the background as a service process. The worm exploits the following vulnerabilities: WKS (MS03-49), RPC-DCOM(MS04-12) and LSASS (MS04-11). For patches for these vulnerabilities, see:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-012.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx
W32/Rbot-AAB can receive commands from a remote intruder to delete network shares, log keypresses, participate in DDoS attacks, scan other computers for vulnerabilities, steal passwords, steal registration keys for computer games, create administrator accounts, terminate firewall and anti-virus processes and capture video from webcameras attached to the computer.
W32/Rbot-AAB copies itself to the Windows system folder as xpiupdate.exe and creates the following registry entries in order to run automatically on computer login:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
xpiupdate
xpiupdate.exe
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
xpiupdate
xpiupdate.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
xpiupdate
xpiupdate.exe
The worm also hardens the computer against further attack by setting the following registry entries:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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