W32/Zotob-F

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

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W32/Zotob-F is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Zotob-F spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including LSASS (MS04-011) and PnP (MS05-039).

W32/Zotob-F 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.

Patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Zotob-F can be obtained from Microsoft at:

MS04-011
MS05-039 W32/Zotob-F is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Zotob-F spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including LSASS (MS04-011) and PnP (MS05-039).

W32/Zotob-F 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.

When first run W32/Zotob-F copies itself to <System>\wintbpx.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\387.bat
<Temp>\821.bat

These are batch files which attempt to remove the worm's file from the current folder.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
wintbpx.exe
wintbpx.exe

W32/Zotob-F attempts to terminate the following processes and delete the corresponding files:

wintbp.exe
svnlitup32.exe
service32.exe
mousebm.exe
llsrv.exe
pnpsrv.exe
winpnp.exe
csm.exe
system32.exe
botzor.exe
upnp.exe

Patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Zotob-F can be obtained from Microsoft at:

MS04-011
MS05-039

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