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W32/Rbot-ASP

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 19 October 2005 20:55:15 (GMT)
Last updated 28 October 2005 12:55:07 (GMT)
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More Information

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

W32/Rbot-ASP spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812) and ASN.1 (MS04-007).

W32/Rbot-ASP 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-ASP copies itself to <System>\MSAOLdrv.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MS Windows AOL Driver
MSAOLdrv.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MS Windows AOL Driver
MSAOLdrv.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
MS Windows AOL Driver
MSAOLdrv.exe

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