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Gaobot.NWK | |
Threat Level Damage Distribution |
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| Common name: | Gaobot.NWK |
| Technical name: | W32/Gaobot.NWK.worm |
| Threat level: | Medium |
| Type: | Worm |
| Effects: |
It spreads and affects other computers.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy.
It causes the loss of information stored on the computer, either specific files or data in general.
It affects the productivity of the computer, the network to which it’s connected or other remote sites.
It carries out actions that decrease the security level of the computer.
It spreads
, across the Internet, via IRC, via mapped drives, through shared network resources.
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| Affected platforms:
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Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 |
| First detected on: | Aug. 14, 2006 |
| Detection updated on: | Aug. 14, 2006 |
| Statistics | No |
Proactive protection: | Yes, using TruPrevent Technologies
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Brief Description | |
Gaobot.NWK is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files. Gaobot.NWK prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.). Gaobot.NWK redirects attempts to access web pages of certain banks to spoofed pages, with the aim of logging information entered by the user in these pages. Gaobot.NWK redirects attempts to access several web pages to a specific IP address. Gaobot.NWK uses the following propagation or distribution methods: - Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
- Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
- IRC: It sends a copy of itself to all users connected to the channel to which the infected user is connected.
- Computer networks (mapped drives): it creates copies of itself in mapped drives.
- Computer networks (shared resources): it creates copies of itself in shared network resources to which it has access.
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