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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 6 October 2004 13:11:35 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Sdbot-PY is a worm and backdoor for the Windows platform.
The worm component spreads to network shares protected by weak passwords and
computers infected with other backdoors. The backdoor component connects to a predefined IRC server and waits for commands from a remote attacker.
W32/Sdbot-PY copies itself to the Windows system folder as svhost.exe and adds the following registry entries:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft Synchronization Manager = "svhost.exe"
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Microsoft Synchronization Manager = "svhost.exe"
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft Synchronization Manager = "svhost.exe"
The backdoor component of W32/Sdbot-PY allows a remote attacker to control the infected computer and use it as a proxy server or to launch distributed denial of service attacks. The worm also logs users' keystrokes to a file named ntfsdi.txt in the Windows system folder.
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