[virusinfo] Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: W32/Netsky-P
- From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: virusinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:52:56 -0800
From; Sophos Alert System:
Name: W32/Netsky-P
Aliases: Win32/Netsky.Q, WORM_NETSKY.P
Type: Win32 worm
Date: 1 April 2004
A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is
available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated
into the May 2004 (3.81) release of Sophos Anti-Virus.
Enterprise Manager and PureMessage customers will be
automatically protected at their next scheduled update.
Sophos has received many reports of this worm from the wild.
Note: Sophos has been detecting W32/Netsky-P since 02:29 GMT on
22 March 2004 and updated the IDE at 03:50 GMT on 30 March. This
latest IDE has been issued to enhance detection.
Information about W32/Netsky-P can be found at:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32netskyp.html
Description
NOTE: The information contained in this analysis may be considered offensive
by some customers.
W32/Netsky-P is a mass-mailing worm which spreads by emailing itself to
addresses harvested from files on the local drives.
The worm copies itself to the Windows folder as FVProtect.exe and adds the
following registry entry to run itself whenever the user logs on to the
computer:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Norton Antivirus AV
= <Windows>\FVProtect.exe
The worm will also copy itself to various peer-to-peer shared folders as the
following files:
1001 Sex and more.rtf.exe
3D Studio Max 6 3dsmax.exe
ACDSee 10.exe
Adobe Photoshop 10 crack.exe
Adobe Photoshop 10 full.exe
Adobe Premiere 10.exe
Ahead Nero 8.exe
Altkins Diet.doc.exe
American Idol.doc.exe
Arnold Schwarzenegger.jpg.exe
Best Matrix Screensaver new.scr
Britney sex xxx.jpg.exe
Britney Spears and Eminem porn.jpg.exe
Britney Spears blowjob.jpg.exe
Britney Spears cumshot.jpg.exe
Britney Spears fuck.jpg.exe
Britney Spears full album.mp3.exe
Britney Spears porn.jpg.exe
Britney Spears Sexy archive.doc.exe
Britney Spears Song text archive.doc.exe
Britney Spears.jpg.exe
Britney Spears.mp3.exe
Clone DVD 6.exe
Cloning.doc.exe
Cracks & Warez Archiv.exe
Dark Angels new.pif
Dictionary English 2004 - France.doc.exe
DivX 8.0 final.exe
Doom 3 release 2.exe
E-Book Archive2.rtf.exe
Eminem blowjob.jpg.exe
Eminem full album.mp3.exe
Eminem Poster.jpg.exe
Eminem sex xxx.jpg.exe
Eminem Sexy archive.doc.exe
Eminem Song text archive.doc.exe
Eminem Spears porn.jpg.exe
Eminem.mp3.exe
Full album all.mp3.pif
Gimp 1.8 Full with Key.exe
Harry Potter 1-6 book.txt.exe
Harry Potter 5.mpg.exe
Harry Potter all e.book.doc.exe
Harry Potter e book.doc.exe
Harry Potter game.exe
Harry Potter.doc.exe
How to hack new.doc.exe
Internet Explorer 9 setup.exe
Kazaa Lite 4.0 new.exe
Kazaa new.exe
Keygen 4 all new.exe
Learn Programming 2004.doc.exe
Lightwave 9 Update.exe
Magix Video Deluxe 5 beta.exe
Matrix.mpg.exe
Microsoft Office 2003 Crack best.exe
Microsoft WinXP Crack full.exe
MS Service Pack 6.exe
netsky source code.scr
Norton Antivirus 2005 beta.exe
Opera 11.exe
Partitionsmagic 10 beta.exe
Porno Screensaver britney.scr
RFC compilation.doc.exe
Ringtones.doc.exe
Ringtones.mp3.exe
Saddam Hussein.jpg.exe
Screensaver2.scr
Serials edition.txt.exe
Smashing the stack full.rtf.exe
Star Office 9.exe
Teen Porn 15.jpg.pif
The Sims 4 beta.exe
Ulead Keygen 2004.exe
Visual Studio Net Crack all.exe
Win Longhorn re.exe
WinAmp 13 full.exe
Windows 2000 Sourcecode.doc.exe
Windows 2003 crack.exe
Windows XP crack.exe
WinXP eBook newest.doc.exe
XXX hardcore pics.jpg.exe
W32/Netsky-P harvests email addresses from files with the following
extensions:
PL, HTM, HTML, EML, TXT, PHP, ASP, VBS, RTF, UIN, SHTM, CGI, DHTM, ADB, TBB,
DBX, SHT, OFT, MSG, JSP, WSH, XML.
The worm has a trigger date of 24th of March 2004, at which time it will
attempt to mass mail.
Emails have the following characteristics (note that not all variations
listed):
Subject lines: constructed from the following groups of strings -
Re: Re:
Re: Encrypted Mail
Re: Extended Mail
Re: Status
Re: Notify
Re: SMTP Server
Re: Mail Server
Re: Delivery Server
Re: Bad Request
Re: Failure
Re: Thank you for delivery
Re: Test
Re: Administration
Re: Message Error
Re: Error
Re: Extended Mail System
Re: Secure SMTP Message
Re: Protected Mail Request
Re: Protected Mail System
Re: Protected Mail Delivery
Re: Secure delivery
Re: Delivery Protection
Re: Mail Authentification
Message texts: chosen from -
Please confirm my request.
ESMTP [Secure Mail System #334]: Secure message is attached.
Partial message is available.
Waiting for a Response. Please read the attachment.
First part of the secure mail is available.
For more details see the attachment.
For further details see the attachment.
Your requested mail has been attached.
Protected Mail System Test.
Secure Mail System Beta Test.
Forwarded message is available.
Delivered message is attached.
Encrypted message is available.
Please read the attachment to get the message.
Follow the instructions to read the message.
Please authenticate the secure message.
Protected message is attached.
Waiting for authentification.
Protected message is available.
Bad Gateway: The message has been attached.
SMTP: Please confirm the attached message.
You got a new message.
Now a new message is available.
New message is available.
You have received an extended message. Please read the instructions.
Attachment description: chosen from -
Your details.
Your document.
I have received your document. The corrected document is attached.
I have attached your document.
Your document is attached to this mail.
Authentication required.
Requested file.
See the file.
Please read the important document.
Please confirm the document.
Your file is attached.
Please read the document.
Your document is attached.
Please read the attached file!
Please see the attached file for details.
followed by -
<attached filename>:
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ MessageLabs AntiVirus - www.messagelabs.com
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Bitdefender AntiVirus - www.bitdefender.com
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ MC-Afee AntiVirus - www.mcafee.com
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Kaspersky AntiVirus - www.kaspersky.com
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Panda AntiVirus - www.pandasoftware.com
++++ Attachment: No Virus found
++++ Norman AntiVirus - www.norman.com
++++ Attachment: No Virus found
++++ F-Secure AntiVirus - www.f-secure.com
++++ Attachment: No Virus found
++++ Norton AntiVirus - www.symantec.de
Attached file:
<filename>_ <recipient_name>.<extension>
<filename> chosen from:
document_all
message
excel document
word document
screensaver
application
website
product
letter
information
details
document
<extension> chosen from:
EXE
SCR
PIF
ZIP
W32/Netsky-P attempts to delete registry entries which may be set by
variants of the W32/Mydoom and W32/Bagle worms.
W32/Netsky-P also creates a number of the TMP files in the Windows folder:
base64.tmp, zip1.tmp, zip2.tmp, zip3.tmp, zipped.tmp.
Download the IDE file from:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/netsky-p.ide
Download all the IDE files available for the current version of
Sophos Anti-Virus in a single compressed file. The file is
available in two formats:
Zip file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip
Self-extracting file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe
Read about how to use IDE files at
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/using.html
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