W32/Tilebot-BY

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

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W32/Tilebot-BY is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Tilebot-BY spreads:

- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), PNP (MS05-039) and ASN.1 (MS04-007)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords

W32/Tilebot-BY runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels. W32/Tilebot-BY is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Tilebot-BY spreads:

- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), PNP (MS05-039) and ASN.1 (MS04-007)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords

W32/Tilebot-BY runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

W32/Tilebot-BY includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run W32/Tilebot-BY copies itself to the Windows system folder.

W32/Tilebot-BY is registered as a new system driver service named "winmngr", with a display name of "WinMan" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\winmngr\

W32/Tilebot-BY sets the following registry entries, disabling the automatic startup of other software:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger
Start
4

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteRegistry
Start
4

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TlntSvr
Start
4

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
DoNotAllowXPSP2
1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile\

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