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W32/Rbot-ASJ

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.gen
  • W32/Sdbot.worm.gen.aw
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 December 2005 (4.00)
Protection available since 18 October 2005 13:21:55 (GMT)
Last updated 20 October 2005 03:41:13 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-ASJ spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), Veritas (CAN-2004-1172) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.

W32/Rbot-ASJ 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-ASJ copies itself to <System>\schedsvc32.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run schedsvc32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Task Scheduler Engine
schedsvc32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Task Scheduler Engine
schedsvc32.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Task Scheduler Engine
schedsvc32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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