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WORM_AGOBOT.BY

by Marianna Schmudlach Mar 24, 2004 2:24PM PST

Virus type: Worm

Destructive: Yes

Description:

This polymorphic, 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

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_AGOBOT.BY