Sophos

W32/Rbot-TT

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from March 2005 (3.91)
Protection available since 18 January 2005 08:56:42 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

The worm copies itself to a file named mpwe.exe in the Windows system folder and creates the following registry entries:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Windows Media Player
"mpwe.exe"

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Windows Media Player
"mpwe.exe"

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Windows Media Player
"mpwe.exe"

W32/Rbot-TT spreads using a variety of techniques including exploiting weak passwords on computers and SQL servers, exploiting operating system vulnerabilities (including DCOM-RPC, LSASS, WebDAV and UPNP) and using backdoors opened by other worms or Trojans.

W32/Rbot-TT can be controlled by a remote attacker over IRC channels. The backdoor component of W32/Rbot-TT 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)

Patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-TT can be obtained from Microsoft at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-012.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-039.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-007.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-059.mspx

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