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W32/Rbot-ATR

Aliases
  • WORM_RBOT.COT
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 28 October 2005 05:41:28 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-ATR 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), Veritas (CAN-2004-1172), 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-ATR 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-ATR copies itself to <System>\mcafee.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
mcafee Software Intrenet
mcafee.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
mcafee Software Intrenet
mcafee.exe

The following registry entry is set:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
mcafee Software Intrenet
mcafee.exe

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