From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Mytob-BA Aliases: Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.y Type: Win32 worm Date: 14 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 no reports from users affected by this worm. However, we have issued this advisory following enquiries to our support department from customers. Information about W32/Mytob-BA can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mytobba.html W32/Mytob-BA is a mass-mailing worm and Trojan with an IRC backdoor. W32/Mytob-BA is capable of spreading through various operating system vulnerabilities such as LSASS (MS04-011). Emails sent by W32/Mytob-BA have the following characteristics: Subject line: Error Status Server Report Mail Transaction Failed Mail Delivery System hello Good day Message text: Here are your banks documents. The original message was included as an attachment. The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment. The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available. The attached file consists of a base name followed by one of the extentions BAT, CMD, PIF, SCR, EXE or ZIP. The worm may optionally create double extensions where the first extension is DOC, TXT or HTM and the final extension is PIF, SCR, EXE or ZIP. W32/Mytob-BA harvests email addresses from files on the infected computer and from the Windows address book. When first run, W32/Mytob-BA copies itself to the Windows system folder as taskgamr.exe and creates the following registry entries: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE WINTASK taskgamr.exe HKCU\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa WINTASK taskgamr.exe HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run WINTASK taskgamr.exe HKLM\Software\Microsoft\OLE WINTASK taskgamr.exe HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa WINTASK taskgamr.exe HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run WINTASK taskgamr.exe HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices WINTASK taskgamr.exe W32/Mytob-BA copies itself to the root folder as: my_photo2005.scr see_this!!.scr funny_pic.scr The worm also drops a helper component to C:\hellmsn.exe which is detected by Sophos's anti-virus products as W32/Mytob-D. W32/Mytob-BA also appends the following to the HOSTS file to deny access to security-related websites: 127.0.0.1 www.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 securityresponse.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 symantec.com 127.0.0.1 www.sophos.com 127.0.0.1 sophos.com 127.0.0.1 www.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com 127.0.0.1 www.viruslist.com 127.0.0.1 viruslist.com 127.0.0.1 viruslist.com 127.0.0.1 f-secure.com 127.0.0.1 www.f-secure.com 127.0.0.1 kaspersky.com 127.0.0.1 www.avp.com 127.0.0.1 www.kaspersky.com 127.0.0.1 avp.com 127.0.0.1 www.networkassociates.com 127.0.0.1 networkassociates.com 127.0.0.1 www.ca.com 127.0.0.1 ca.com 127.0.0.1 mast.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 my-etrust.com 127.0.0.1 www.my-etrust.com 127.0.0.1 download.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 dispatch.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 secure.nai.com 127.0.0.1 nai.com 127.0.0.1 www.nai.com 127.0.0.1 update.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 updates.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 us.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 liveupdate.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 customer.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 rads.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 trendmicro.com 127.0.0.1 www.microsoft.com 127.0.0.1 www.trendmicro.com This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Mytob-AC http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mytobac.html Troj/Agent-DE http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentde.html Troj/Dloader-YK http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderyk.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/mytob-ba.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