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W32/Codbot-S

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Codbot.s
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 15 March 2005 09:12:53 (GMT)
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Action

Please follow the instructions for removing worms.

Change any data that may have become compromised.

More Information

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

W32/Codbot-S can spread to remote network shares protected by weak passwords and to 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-S 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-S copies itself to the Windows system folder with the filename "ulcdrsf.exe".

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

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ulead Systems

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

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\Ulead Systems
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network\Ulead Systems

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