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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 24 October 2005 00:20:34 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-ATA is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-ATA 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-ATA 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-ATA copies itself to <System>\MSAOL32dll.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run MSAOL32dll.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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MSAOL32dll.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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MSAOL32dll.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
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MSAOL32dll.exe
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