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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 1 July 2008 04:49:26 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-GWZ is a network worm with backdoor Trojan functionality for the Windows platform.
The worm copies itself to <System>\NPFMONTR.exe and creates the following registry entries:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
NPFValue
<System>\NPFMONTR.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
NPFValue
<System>\NPFMONTR.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
NPFValue
<System>\NPFMONTR.exe
W32/Rbot-GWZ spreads to other network computers by Software vulnerabilities: LSASS (MS04-011),RPC-DCOM (MS04-012),WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812),Veritas (CAN-2004-1172),ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak password of MSSQL server and network share.
W32/Rbot-GWZ can be controlled by a remote attacker over specified IRC channels. The backdoor component of W32/Rbot-GWW can be instructed by a remote user to perform the following functions:
- start a FTP server
- start a Proxy server
- start a web server
- DDoS
- capture screen
- log keypresses
- record clipboard data
- port scanning
- download/run arbitrary files
- start a remote shell
- steal information
- reduce system security
W32/Rbot-GWZ creates "C:\del.bat" which is detected as Troj/Batten-A.
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