Win32.Mydoom.BA@mm
( Mytob )| Spreading: | medium | |
| Damage: | low | |
| Size: | 33280 bytes | |
| Discovered: | 2005 Sep 28 |
SYMPTOMS:
- Internet Firewall in XP SP2 disabled. - Presence of a file named ⌠scrigz.exe■ in the Windows\System directory. - Some Windows and security programs stop working unexplicably.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION:
This virus is another variant of the (now very large) Mytob/Mydoom family. This is possible because the sources of a previous variant have been leaked on the Internet.At startup the virus copies itself in the %sysdir% directory under the name ⌠scrigz.exe■. It adds itself in the HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run and Runservices keys to ensure start at every system startup.
It then lowers the IE security settings and disables shared access in the Windows Firewall.
With the system security compromised, the virus will then create several threads, each with various functions:
- Monitor the virus entries in the system registry, restoring them as needed periodically.
- Search and harvest e-mail addresses from files with the extensions: htm, adb, tbb, asp, php, xml, cgi, jsp, sht, html.
- Connect to a SMTP server obtained from the concatenation of one of his internal strings (gate., ns., relay., mail1., mxs., mx1., smtp., mail., mx.) and domain names extracted from the harvested e-mail addresses and send e-mails with his own SMTP engine. The virus will search for a SMTP server in the settings of Outlook Express also if it is defined.
- Connect to an IRC server and a channel and wait commands from the virus creator. Commands include various information about the system, and also the possibility to download and run malware indicated by the virus creator.
- Monitor a list of processes and kill them whenever they▓re active. This is done by acquiring the ⌠SeDebugPrivilege■ prior to scanning for processes
The virus will overwrite the %sysdir%\Drivers\Etc\hosts file, disabling the updates of certain AV programs and access to various security related web-sites.
E-mail format is chosen at random from various templates:
From: (spoofed).
Subject: (one of the following)
Notice of account limitation Email Account Suspension Security measures Members Support Important Notification Warning Message: Your services near to be closed. Your Account is Suspended For Security Reasons *DETECTED* Online User Violation Your Account is Suspended Your new account password is approved You have successfully updated your password Your password has been successfully updated Your password has been updated Message body: (one of the following) 1. Dear (random) Member,We have temporarily suspended your email account (random). This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors. See the details to reactivate your (random) account.
Sincerely,
The (random) Support Team
Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
(random) Antivirus www.(random).com
2. Dear user (random),
You have successfully updated the password of your (random) account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account,
please contact (random) customer service at: (random)
Thank you for using (random)!
The (random) Support Team
Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
(random) Antivirus - www.(random).com
3. Dear user (random), It has come to our attention that your (random) User Profile ( x ) records are out of date. For further details see the attached document.
Thank you for using (random)!
The (random) Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ (random) Antivirus - www.(random).com
4. Dear (random) Member,
Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited spam messages during the recent week. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice
but to cancel your membership.
Virtually yours,
The (random) Support Team
Attachment: No Virus found
Attachement name: (one of the following)
account-report readme document account-info email-details account-details important-details accepted-password account-password approved-password password new-password email-password updated-passwordconcatenated with a neutral extension (doc, txt, htm, tmp) and then with an executable one (exe, scr, bat, cmd, pif, zip).
The virus will monitor and kill all processes that have these names:
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The virus will not send e-mails to addresses that contain of the following strings:
accoun certific listserv ntivi support icrosoft admin page the.bat gold-certs feste submit help service privacy somebody soft contact site rating bugs your someone anyone nothing nobody noone webmaster postmaster samples info root be_loyal: mozilla utgers.ed tanford.e acketst secur isc.o isi.e ripe. arin. sendmail rfc-ed ietf iana usenet fido linux kernel google ibm.com fsf. mit.e math unix berkeley foo. .mil gov. .gov ruslis nodomai mydomai example inpris borlan sopho panda hotmail msn. icrosof syma .edu abuse
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