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| How it spreads |
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|---|---|
| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Characteristics |
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| Protection available since | 15 December 2005 09:09:43 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-BCE is a worm for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-BCE spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), MSSQL (MS02-039) (CAN-2002-0649) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.
W32/Rbot-BCE has the following functionalities to:
- allow access from a remote location
- steal information
- log keystrokes
- terminate processes
When run, W32/Rbot-BCE copies itself to <System>\msdupd.exe.
When run, W32/Rbot-BCE sets the following registry entries:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MSNS PLUS XP2
msdupd.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
MSNS PLUS XP2
msdupd.exe
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess
Start
4
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv
Start
4
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\wscsvc
Start
4
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableRemoteConnect
N
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1
