Sophos

W32/Rbot-AXR

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 21 November 2005 05:22:04 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-AXR 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-AXR copies itself to <System>\cgy32win.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run cgy32win.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Windows Files Loader
cgy32win.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Microsoft Windows Files Loader
cgy32win.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Microsoft Windows Files Loader
cgy32win.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1

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