Malware type: Worm

Aliases: W32/Gaobot.worm, Win32/Agobot.IS.Worm, Worm/Agobot.14.I

In the wild: No

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows NT, 2000, XP

Encrypted: No

Description: 

This worm spreads via network shares. It attempts to log onto systems using a list of user names and passwords hardcoded it its body. It then drops a copy of itself as CSRSSS.EXE in the accessed machines.

This worm also exploits 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:

• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-001
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-007

It has backdoor capabilities and may execute several remote commands in the host machine. It also terminates certain antivirus processes, as well as running processes that belong to other malware files

Also, this worm steals Windows product ID information, as well as the CD keys of certain game applications.

This worm is written and compiled using Microsoft Visual C++. It runs on Windows NT, 2000, and XP.

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Solution
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Description created: Jul. 13, 2004 2:21:33 PM GMT -0800

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