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WORM_AGOBOT.PS
Overview

Malware type: Worm

Aliases: Backdoor.Win32.Agobot.ps (Kaspersky), W32/Gaobot.worm.aja (McAfee), W32.Gaobot.gen!poly (Symantec), Worm/Gaobot.103936 (Avira), Mal/Behav-134 (Sophos),

In the wild: No

Destructive: Yes

Language: English

Platform: Windows NT, 2000, XP

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:


Reported infections:

Damage potential:

High

Distribution potential:

High

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
  • IIS5/WEBDAV Buffer Overflow vulnerability
  • RPC Locator vulnerability

For more information about these Windows vulnerabilities, please refer to the following Microsoft Web pages:

It drops itself as the file sys32.exe in the Windows system folder. It attempts to log into systems using a list of user names and passwords.

It connects to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server and opens a random port where it awaits malicious commands.

This malware also terminates processes and steals CD keys of certain game applications.

This worm usually arrives compressed twice with ASPACK2 and UPX.

It runs on Windows NT, 2000 and XP.

For additional information about this threat, see:
Solution
Technical Details

Description created: Mar. 23, 2004 2:42:49 PM GMT -0800
Description updated: Mar. 23, 2004 2:42:57 PM GMT -0800

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