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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Included in our products from | April 2006 (4.04) |
| Protection available since | 7 March 2006 21:16:42 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-CMZ is a network worm with backdoor Trojan functionality for the Windows platform.
The worm copies itself to a file named msdnsd32.exe in the Windows system folder and creates the following registry entries:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MS Domain Name Server Deamon
MSDNSD32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MS Domain Name Server Deamon
MSDNSD32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
MS Domain Name Server Deamon
MSDNSD32.exe
W32/Rbot-CMZ spreads using a variety of techniques including:
-exploiting weak passwords on computers and SQL servers
-exploiting operating system vulnerabilities, including LSASS (MS04-011), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812) and ASN.1 (MS04-007)
-using backdoors opened by other worms or Trojans.
W32/Rbot-CMZ can be controlled by a remote attacker over IRC channels. The backdoor component of W32/Rbot-CMZ can be instructed by a remote user to perform the following functions:
start an FTP server
start a Proxy server
start a web server
take part in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks
log keypresses
capture screen/webcam images
packet sniffing
port scanning
download/execute arbitrary files
start a remote shell (RLOGIN)
steal product registration information from certain software
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