Sophos

W32/Rbot-ATI

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.adf
  • WORM_RBOT.CFP
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from December 2005 (4.00)
Protection available since 26 October 2005 08:04:21 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-ATI spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow

vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WKS (MS03-049)

(CAN-2003-0812), MSSQL (MS02-039) (CAN-2002-0649), PNP (MS05-039) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.

W32/Rbot-ATI 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-ATI copies itself to <System>\crease.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows Media Updater
crease.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows Media Updater
crease.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Windows Media Updater
crease.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1

MS04-011
MS04-012
MS03-049
MS04-007
MS02-039
MS05-039

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