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Troj/Vbbot-B

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 19 April 2005 21:17:15 (GMT)
Last updated 16 May 2005 20:06:49 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Vbbot-B is a backdoor Trojan.

Troj/Vbbot-B contains functionality to act as a proxy server and to download and run files.

Troj/Vbbot-B will create a file named IDXOCB.DLL. This is a text file that contains logging information.

In order to run automatically each time a user logs in, Troj/Vbbot-B will set the following registry entries:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tcp checker
tcpcheck.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
tcp checker
tcpcheck.exe

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tcp checker
tcpcheck.exe

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
tcp checker
tcpcheck.exe

Troj/Vbbot-B will also run as a service named "EthernetService" with a display name of "Ethernet Service"
Registry entries will be created under the following branch:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EthernetService

In particular, the following registry entry is created:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EthernetService
ImagePath
ethernet.exe

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