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W32/Codbot-I

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 6 March 2005 14:37:27 (GMT)
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More Information

W32/Codbot-I is a network worm and IRC backdoor Trojan.

W32/Codbot-I can spread to remote network shares protected by weak passwords and computers vulnerable to common exploits, including the RPC-DCOM (MS04-012) and Webdav (MS03-007) vulnerabilities. See:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-012.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-007.mspx

W32/Codbot-I can be controlled by a remote attacker via the IRC network. The attacker can issue commands to download and run further malicious code, steal passwords and system information and sniff packets from the local network.

W32/Codbot-I copies itself to the Windows system folder with the filename "DXDLLSVC.EXE".

On NT-based versions of Windows (NT,2000,XP) the worm registers itself as a service process named "DirectX DLL" with a displayname of "DirectX DLL Register Support Service" and a start-type of automatic so that the worm is run on computer login. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DirectX DLL

W32/Codbot-I also creates the following registry entries in order to run as a service process in safe mode:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\DirectX DLL
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network\DirectX DLL

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