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Details of Virus AKBot.AF

All details, description and effects of AKBot.AF

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Common names: AKBot.AF
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Type: WORM
Size: 79849 Bytes
   

DETECTIONS

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Date first seen: July 10, 2007 at 05:05 AM
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Brief Description

AKBot.AF is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.

 

AKBot.AF 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.

 

EFFECTS

The main objective of AKBot.AF is to spread and affect other computers.

 

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