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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Characteristics |
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| Included in our products from | June 2007 (4.18) |
| Protection available since | 18 April 2007 06:00:41 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/IRCBot-VQ is a worm with backdoor functionality for the Windows platform.
W32/IRCBot-VQ 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.
W32/IRCBot-VQ 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)
PNP (MS05-039)
ASN.1 (MS04-007)
When first run W32/IRCBot-VQ copies itself to <System>\updt.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run updt.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
AdobeReaderPro
updt.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
AdobeReaderPro
updt.exe
The following registry entry is set:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
AdobeReaderPro
updt.exe
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