ColdLifeThreat Level: Low
Distribution: Low
Damage: Low
The Threat Level varies according to the Distribution and Damage levels
Common name: ColdLife
Technical name: Bck/IRC.ColdLife
Threat level: Low
Alias: Bck/IRC.ColdLife, Flood.I
Type: Trojan
Effects: Floods IRC chat channels
Systems affected: Windows
First appeared on: Feb. 11, 2003
In circulation? Yes
Brief Description
Coldlife is a backdoor type Trojan that allows a hacker to flood IRC chat channels.
Once it is run, it allows the attacker to gain remote access to the computer and carry out the following actions:
Send packets of a specific size to a certain IP address.
Replicate in order to advertise or overload IRC networks.
Clone other users.
Log on to a file server with a different user.
Launch DoS (denial of service) attacks on a specific IP address.
Use P2P (peer to peer) file sharing programs to send out a large number of files.
Visible Symptoms
Coldlife is difficult to recognize, as it does not display any warnings or messages that indicate that it has reached a computer.
