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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 26 October 2005 09:42:28 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Agobot-TW is a worm and backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Agobot-TW runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server
which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer.
W32/Agobot-TW spreads via common buffer overflow exploits, including LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), and PNP (MS05-039), as well as to weakly protected network shares. W32/Agobot-TW is a worm and backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Agobot-TW runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server
which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer.
W32/Agobot-TW spreads via common buffer overflow exploits, including LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), and PNP (MS05-039), as well as to weakly protected network shares.
When first run W32/Agobot-TW copies itself to <System>\msn5.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run msn5.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Video Process
msn5.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Video Process
msn5.exe
The file msn5.exe is registered as a new file system driver service named "Video
Process", with a display name of "Video Process" and a startup type of
automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry
entries are created under:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Video Process\
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