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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 30 October 2007 16:18:23 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-GUP is a worm with IRC backdoor functionality for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-GUP 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), WebDav (MS03-007), IIS5SSL (ms04-011) (CAN-2003-0719), Veritas (CAN-2004-1172), WINS (MS04-045), PNP (MS05-039), IMAIL Server, ASN.1 (MS04-007) and RealVNC (CVE-2006-2369) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.
W32/Rbot-GUP 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-GUP copies itself to <Windows>\Msnhelper.exe and creates the file <Windows>\images.zip. images.zip contains a copy of the worm executable with the PIF extension.
The following registry entry is created to run Msnhelper.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MSN
Msnhelper.exe
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