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W32/Hiberi-B

Aliases
  • Net-Worm.Win32.Hiberium.b
  • W32.Iberio
  • WORM_ZOTOB.O
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 19 September 2005 13:20:12 (GMT)
Last updated 14 December 2005 23:39:55 (GMT)
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More Information

W32/Hiberi-B is a worm and backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Hiberi-B spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including PNP (MS05-039).

W32/Hiberi-B runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer.

W32/Hiberi-B includes functionality to download, install and run new software.

W32/Hiberi-B downloads the following files:

Hiberium.rar
Hiberium2.rar
VfProtect.exe
VfProtect2.exe

The following registry entry is created to run W32/Hiberi-B on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MSPRO32
<pathname of the worm executable>

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