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| How it spreads |
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|---|---|
| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Characteristics |
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| Protection available since | 22 April 2006 15:27:19 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-DCL is a worm for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-DCL spreads:
- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including: RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), PNP (MS05-039), ASN.1 (MS04-007)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords
When first run W32/Rbot-DCL copies itself to <System>\inete.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run inete.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
INET E
inete.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
INET E
inete.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
INET E
inete.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
INET E
inete.exe
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKCU\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
INET E
inete.exe
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
INET E
inete.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
INET E
inete.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
INET E
inete.exe
