Sophos

W32/Rbot-AVO

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 4 November 2005 14:35:08 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Rbot-AVO 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), WINS (MS04-045), MSSQL (MS02-039) (CAN-2002-0649) and PNP (MS05-039) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.

W32/Rbot-AVO 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-AVO copies itself to <System>\dma.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Auto Update
dma.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Auto Update
dma.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Auto Update
dma.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Auto Update
dma.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Auto Update
dma.exe

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Auto Update
dma.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Auto Update
dma.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
Auto Update
dma.exe

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