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W32/Rbot-BMG

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.anu
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 March 2006 (4.03)
Protection available since 17 January 2006 15:34:52 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Rbot-BMG is an internet worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Rbot-BMG spreads to other network computers by exploiting the buffer overflow vulnerabilites LSASS

(MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012) , PNP (MS05-039), ASN.1 (MS04-007), and WKS (MS03-049) and by copying itself

to network shares protected by weak passwords.

W32/Rbot-BMG 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.

The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-BMG can be obtained from the Microsoft website:

MS04-011
MS04-012
MS05-039
MS04-007
MS03-049 W32/Rbot-BMG is an internet worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Rbot-BMG spreads to other network computers by exploiting the buffer overflow vulnerabilites LSASS

(MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012) , PNP (MS05-039), ASN.1 (MS04-007), and WKS (MS03-049) and by copying itself

to network shares protected by weak passwords.

W32/Rbot-BMG 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.

The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-BMG can be obtained from the Microsoft website:

MS04-011
MS04-012
MS05-039
MS04-007
MS03-049

When first run W32/Rbot-BMG copies itself to <System>\CCapp1.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run MSGUPDAT32.EXE on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Antivirus Protection
CCapp1.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Antivirus Protection
CCapp1.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Antivirus Protection
CCapp1.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Antivirus Protection
CCapp1.exe

The following registry entry is set:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE\
Antivirus Protection
CCapp1.exe

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