Sophos

W32/Sdbot-ABL

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 December 2005 (4.00)
Protection available since 3 August 2005 07:29:19 (GMT)
Last updated 6 November 2005 04:15:04 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Sdbot-ABL is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

W32/Sdbot-ABL 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/Sdbot-ABL copies itself to <System>\icq2002.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run icq2002.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ICQ Messenger 2002
ICQ2002.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
ICQ Messenger 2002
ICQ2002.exe

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