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W32/Rbot-AVQ

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 4 November 2005 04:36:46 (GMT)
Last updated 9 November 2005 01:23:07 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-AVQ 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.

W32/Rbot-AVQ will spread through network shares protected by weak passwords and by taking advantage of the following exploits:

RPC-DCOM (MS04-012)
PNP (MS05-039)
ASN.1 (MS04-007)

When first run W32/Rbot-AVQ copies itself to <System>\bhsv.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
Browser Help Svc
BHSV.EXE

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