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W32/Rbot-AQP

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.adf
  • W32/Sdbot.worm.gen.ar
  • virus
  • W32.Spybot.Worm
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 June 2006 (4.06)
Protection available since 10 October 2005 12:59:41 (GMT)
Last updated 11 May 2006 07:29:08 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-AQP spreads to other network computers infected with: Troj/Kuang, Troj/Sub7, Troj/NetDevil, W32/MyDoom, W32/Bagle and Troj/Optix and to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), WebDav (MS03-007), IIS5SSL (MS04-011) (CAN-2003-0719), UPNP (MS01-059), Veritas (CAN-2004-1172), Dameware (CAN-2003-1030) and ASN.1 (MS04-007).

W32/Rbot-AQP 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/Rbot-AQP copies itself to <System>\om4r.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run om4r.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Update 32
om4r.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Microsoft Update 32
om4r.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Microsoft Update 32
om4r.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1

W32/Rbot-AQP may also attempt to terminate security related processes on an infected computer.

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