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W32/Rbot-APS

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.gen
  • BKDR_RBOT.BE
  • W32.Spybot.Worm
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 30 September 2005 12:16:07 (GMT)
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More Information

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

W32/Rbot-APS spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), Veritas (CAN-2004-1172) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.

W32/Rbot-APS 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/Rbot-APS may try to terminate security related processes.

When first run W32/Rbot-APS copies itself to <System>\tcpippui.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tcpippui
tcpippui.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
tcpippui
tcpippui.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
tcpippui
tcpippui.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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