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W32/Codbot-T

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Codbot.am
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 15 August 2005 07:30:37 (GMT)
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More Information

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

W32/Codbot-T 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.

W32/Codbot-T includes functionality to:

- log keystrokes
- silently download, install and run new software
- access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP
- perform port scanning

W32/Codbot-T spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012) and MSSQL (MS02-039) (CAN-2002-0649).

When first run W32/Codbot-T copies itself to <System>\Rpcmon.exe.

The file Rpcmon.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "Rpcmon", with a display name of "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Monitoring", a description of "Monitoring the end point mapper and other RPC services." and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rpcmon\

The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Codbot-T can be obtained from the Microsoft website:

MS04-012
MS04-011
MS02-039

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