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Description:
This memory-resident malware has both worm and backdoor capabilities.
Like the earlier AGOBOT variants, it takes advantage of the following Windows vulnerabilities to propagate across networks:
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Vulnerability
- RPC Locator Vulnerability
- IIS5/WEBDAV Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
For more information about these Windows vulnerabilities, please refer to the following Microsoft Web pages:
It drops itself as the file WINAPS.EXE in the Windows system folder. It attempts to log into systems using a list of user names and passwords.
It opens port 6667 and connects to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server. It then joins an IRC channel to receive malicious commands, which it processes on a system.
It also terminates antivirus-related programs and steals CD keys of certain game applications.
This UPX-compressed malware runs on Windows NT, 2000, and XP.
For additional information about this threat, see:
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Description created: Mar. 16, 2004 9:18:25 PM GMT -0800
Description updated: Mar. 16, 2004 9:18:23 PM GMT -0800
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