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W32/Codbot-R

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Codbot.aj
  • W32/Sdbot.worm.gen.by
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 7 August 2005 14:30:11 (GMT)
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More Information

W32/Codbot-R is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Codbot-R spreads:

- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812) and MSSQL (MS02-039) (CAN-2002-0649)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords

W32/Codbot-R 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/Codbot-R copies itself to <System>\Netmon.exe and creates the clean file <Temp>\terminate.bat.

The file Netmon.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "Netmon", with a display name of "Net Functions Monitoring", a description of "Monitors all active network connections to intercept failures." and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netmon\

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