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Dasher worm infection

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Dasher worm infection

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/16/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/16/2006
Modified
07/31/2012

Description

Evidence of infection with the W32.Dasher.[A|B|C] worm has been found on the system. This worm spreads using the vulnerability in the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator reported in MS05-051. The worm targets systems which respond to a TCP SYN scan then sends the payload containing malicious code which downloads the worm executable files.

Solution(s)

  • dasher-abc-worm

References

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