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| How it spreads |
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|---|---|
| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Characteristics |
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| Included in our products from | January 2006 (4.01) |
| Protection available since | 19 November 2005 20:43:16 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-AXV is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-AXV 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-AXV exploits the following sofwtare vulnerbilities:
LSASS (MS04-011)
RPC-DCOM (MS04-012)
WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812)
WebDav (MS03-007)
IIS5SSL (MS04-011) (CAN-2003-0719)
UPNP (MS01-059)
Veritas (CAN-2004-1172)
Dameware (CAN-2003-1030)
ASN.1 (MS04-007)
When first run W32/Rbot-AXV copies itself to <System>\grplscd.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run grplscd.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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grplscd.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
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grplscd.exe
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
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grplscd.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
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HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
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