Sophos

W32/IRCBot-WV

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.acd
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2007 (4.20)
Protection available since 1 July 2007 22:49:55 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/IRCBot-WV is a worm for the Windows platform that also includes backdoor functionality.

W32/IRCBot-WV is a worm for the Windows platform that also includes backdoor functionality.

W32/IRCBot-WV includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When W32/IRCBot-WV is installed the following files are created:

<User>\new.txt
<Windows>\myalbum2007.zip
<System>\sysprinters.dll

The following registry entry is created to run code exported by B0F684D7-B19D-47B2-BD49-F77F13EB482A on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad
system32
B0F684D7-B19D-47B2-BD49-F77F13EB482A

The file sysprinters.dll is registered as a COM object, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\B0F684D7-B19D-47B2-BD49-F77F13EB482A

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