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WORM_RBOT.UZ
Overview

Malware type: Worm

Aliases: Packed.Win32.NSAnti.r (Kaspersky), W32/Sdbot.worm.gen.h (McAfee), Trojan.Packed.NsAnti (Symantec), Worm/AgoBot.88764 (Avira), Mal/Packer (Sophos), Backdoor:Win32/Rbot (Microsoft)

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:


Reported infections:

Damage potential:

High

Distribution potential:

High

Description: 

This worm uses the account of a target user as well as a list of weak user names and passwords to access network shares.

This worm can also take advantage of the following vulnerabilities, malware backdoor capabilities and application to propagate into accessible systems:

  • Buffer Overflow in SQL Server 2000 (MS02-061)
  • WebDAV vulnerability (MS03-007)
  • Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) vulnerability (MS03-026)
  • Windows LSASS vulnerability (MS04-011)
  • WORM_BAGLE, WORM_MYDOOM, BKDR_OPTIX, BKDR_NETDEVIL, BKDR_KUANG and BKDR_SUB7 variants
  • DameWare

This worm connects to the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server as an IRC bot. It then listens for certain commands coming from a malicious user.

It also steals CD keys of popular game applications.

It runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.

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

Description created: Oct. 26, 2004 11:38:58 PM GMT -0800
Description updated: Oct. 27, 2004 12:00:31 AM GMT -0800

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