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W32/Rbot-ANL

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.gen
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 10 September 2005 15:27:12 (GMT)
Last updated 4 October 2005 10:27:55 (GMT)
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More Information

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

W32/Rbot-ANL spreads:

- to other network computers infected with: Troj/Kuang, Troj/Sub7, Troj/NetDevil, W32/MyDoom, W32/Bagle and Troj/Optix
- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), WebDav (MS03-007), IIS5SSL (MS04-011) (CAN-2003-0719), UPNP (MS01-059), Veritas (CAN-2004-1172), Dameware (CAN-2003-1030) and ASN.1 (MS04-007)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords

W32/Rbot-ANL 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-ANL copies itself to the System folder.

The following registry entries are created to run W32/Rbot-ANL on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Security Panager
<worm filename>

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Microsoft Security Panager
<worm filename>

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Microsoft Security Panager
<worm filename>

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1

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