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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 | 28 November 2005 05:45:58 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-AYK is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-AYK 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-AYK spreads:
- to other network computers infected with: Troj/Sub7, Troj/NetDevil, W32/MyDoom, W32/Bagle and Troj/Optix
- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WebDav (MS03-007), IIS5SSL (MS04-011) (CAN-2003-0719), UPNP (MS01-059) and Dameware (CAN-2003-1030)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords
When first run W32/Rbot-AYK copies itself to <System>\tase.pif.
The following registry entries are created to run tase.pif on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Taesk managers
tase.pif
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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tase.pif
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
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tase.pif
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1
W32/Rbot-AYK includes functionality to:
- carry DDoS attacks
- download files from the internet and run them
- steal information including CD game keys
- setup a SOCKS4 server
- perform screen captures
- setup a proxy to redirect internet traffic
- log keystrokes
