Sophos

W32/Delbot-J

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 April 2007 (4.16)
Protection available since 26 February 2007 14:01:02 (GMT)
Last updated 7 March 2007 10:59:23 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Delbot-J is a worm with IRC backdoor functionality for the Windows platform.

W32/Delbot-J spreads
 - to computers vulnerable to common exploits, including: Symantec (SYM06-010)
 - to MSSQL servers protected by weak passwords

When first run W32/Delbot-J copies itself to <System>\jbuild.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run jbuild.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Java Runtime Environment
System\jbuild.exe

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