Sophos

W32/Rbot-BBI

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.ajv
  • W32/Sdbot.worm.gen.bj
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 12 December 2005 22:00:03 (GMT)
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More Information

W32/Rbot-BBI is a worm with backdoor functionality for the Windows platform.

W32/Rbot-BBI can spread via the following common buffer overflow exploits:

LSASS (MS04-011)
RPC-DCOM (MS04-012)
WebDav (MS03-007)
UPNP (MS01-059)

as well as to computers infected with the following worms:

W32/MyDoom
W32/Bagle

as well as to weakly protected network shares.

W32/Rbot-BBI 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-BBI copies itself to <Windows system folder>\diskmon32.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run diskmon32.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
diskchk
diskmon32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
diskchk
diskmon32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
diskchk
diskmon32.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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