Sophos

W32/Rbot-BJU

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.afu
  • WORM_RBOT.CNG
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 October 2006 (4.10)
Protection available since 10 January 2006 21:52:41 (GMT)
Last updated 26 August 2006 13:05:00 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Rbot-BJU spreads:
- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords

W32/Rbot-BJU 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-BJU copies itself to <System>\winlogi.exe with the hidden file attributes.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
virtual-ie
winlogi.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
virtual-ie
winlogi.exe

The following registry entry is set:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
virtual-ie
winlogi.exe

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