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W32/Agobot-TI

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Agobot.gen
  • W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.d
  • W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen
  • WORM_AGOBOT.BCD
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from November 2005 (3.99)
Protection available since 10 September 2005 15:27:12 (GMT)
Last updated 4 October 2005 10:27:55 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Agobot-TI is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Agobot-TI spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including: PNP (MS05-039) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.

W32/Agobot-TI 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/Agobot-TI copies itself to <System>\hfsecure.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run hfsecure.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HF Security
hfsecure.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
HF Security
hfsecure.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
NoAutoUpdate
1

HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
AUOptions
1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
NoAutoUpdate
1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
AUOptions
1

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
AUOptions
1

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
0

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Security Center\
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\
HKCR\.key\

Patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Agobot-TI are available from :

MS05-039
MS04-007

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