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W32/Rbot-APK

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 28 September 2005 21:42:59 (GMT)
Last updated 17 October 2005 09:08:53 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-APK spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), Veritas (CAN-2004-1172), MSSQL (MS02-039) (CAN-2002-0649) and ASN.1 (MS04-007).

When first run W32/Rbot-APK copies itself to <System>\explorer.pif.

The following registry entries are created to run explorer.pif on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Explorer soft
explorer.pif

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Explorer soft
explorer.pif

The following registry entry is also set:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Explorer soft
explorer.pif

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