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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Characteristics |
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| Protection available since | 5 June 2007 23:05:09 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-GQW is an IRC backdoor worm for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-GQW spreads:
- to computers vulnerable to common exploits, including: SRVSVC (MS06-040), WKS (MS03-049), MSSQL (MS02-039), PNP (MS05-039), ASN.1 (MS04-007), Realcast, RealVNC (CVE-2006-2369) and Symantec (SYM06-010).
- to network shares.
When first run W32/Rbot-GQW copies itself to <System>\updaterarwin.exe and creates the file <Root>\a.bat.
The file a.bat is detected as Troj/Batten-A.
The following registry entries are created to run updaterarwin.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
DRam rare proc
updaterarwin.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
DRam rare proc
updaterarwin.exe
The following registry entries are set:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLEDRam rare proc
updaterarwin.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableRemoteConnect
N
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
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