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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Protection available since | 14 October 2005 09:18:36 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-ART is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-ART 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-ART 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-ART copies itself to <System>\tcpippui32.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run tcpippui32.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tcpippui32
tcpippui32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
tcpippui32
tcpippui32.exe
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
tcpippui32
tcpippui32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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W32/Rbot-ART includes functionality to:
- access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP
- steal information
- carry out DDoS attacks
- capture screenshots
- log keystrokes
- terminates anti-virus and security related processes
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-ART can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
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