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W32/Rbot-BCL

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 February 2006 (4.02)
Protection available since 16 December 2005 03:43:27 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-BCL spreads:

- to other network computers infected with: W32/MyDoom and W32/Bagle
- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WebDav (MS03-007) and UPNP (MS01-059)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords

W32/Rbot-BCL 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-BCL copies itself to <System>\dskmon32.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run dskmon32.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
diskchk32
dskmon32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
diskchk32
dskmon32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
diskchk32
dskmon32.exe

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
1

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