From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Banish-A Type: Win32 worm Date: 28 April 2005 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the June 2005 (3.94) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. Customers using EM Library, PureMessage or any of our Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. At the time of writing, Sophos has received a small number of reports of this worm from the wild. Information about W32/Banish-A can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32banisha.html W32/Banish-A is a mass-mailing worm with password-stealing functionality. W32/Banish-A submits queries to popular search engines in order to find email addresses to which to send itself. Emails sent by the worm have the following characteristics: Subject line: OK. Read the attached instructions to solve the problem. Here are the details. Re: Thank you for your choice. Thank you for shopping. This mail contains your invoice. Thank you. Your credit card was processed successfully. Attached file: A filename chosen from those in the current user's "Recent Documents" folder. W32/Banish-A also spreads by exploiting the following vulnerabilities: LSASS (MS04-011) IIS5 (MS04-011) When first run, W32/Banish-A copies itself to one of the following filenames in the Windows folder: smss.exe lsass.exe csrss.exe services.exe winlogon.exe The worm installs itself as a service with the name "Windows Object Manager". The other characteristics of this service are copied from one of the already-existing services, chosen at random. W32/Banish-A attempts to log network traffic in order to steal passwords. W32/Banish-A deletes any files found in the "repair" subfolder of the Windows folder. W32/Banish-A contains the following message: ExiliuM SerieS A In honour to all the people that were, are, or will be forced to leave their homelands. NO MORE EXILED PEOPLE, NO MORE WARS (c)ThE ExpaTRiatE 2005 This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Agent-DM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentdm.html Troj/Dloader-MW http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloadermw.html Troj/LZDrop-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojlzdropa.html Troj/Agent-DO http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentdo.html Troj/Iefeat-AH http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojiefeatah.html Troj/Dappo-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdappoa.html Troj/Ablank-W http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojablankw.html VBS/Confi-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/vbsconfia.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/banish-a.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 *********** MIKE"S REPLY SEPARATOR *********** Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page http://www3.telus.net/mikebike <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/worm_removal.htm See my Anti-Virus pages http://virusinfo.hackfix.org/index <virusinfo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> A Technical Support Alliance and OWTA Charter Member
