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W32/Rbot-ACY

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.qa
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 24 May 2005 13:35:32 (GMT)
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More Information

W32/Rbot-ACY is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Rbot-ACY spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, includingIIS5SSL (MS04-011) (CAN-2003-0719).

W32/Rbot-ACY 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/Rbot-ACY copies itself to <System>\pidchk32.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run pidchk32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
winnt DNS ident
pidchk32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
winnt DNS ident
pidchk32.exe

The following registry entry is set:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
winnt DNS ident
pidchk32.exe

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