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W32/Rbot-AHJ

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 August 2005 (3.96)
Protection available since 7 July 2005 01:08:40 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Rbot-AHJ is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Rbot-AHJ 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/Rbot-AHJ spreads:

- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012) and WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812)

- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords

When first run W32/Rbot-AHJ copies itself to <System>\mouse.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
mouse
mouse.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
mouse
mouse.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1

The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-AHJ can be obtained from the Microsoft website:

MS04-011
MS04-012
MS03-049

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