[virusinfo] W32/Mytob-BW
- From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: virusinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:38:32 -0700
From: Sophos Alert System:
Name: W32/Mytob-BW
Aliases: WORM_MYTOB.BW
Type: Win32 worm
Date: 26 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/Mytob-BW can be found at:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mytobbw.html
W32/Mytob-BW is a mass-mailing worm and backdoor Trojan that can be controlled
through the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network.
When first run W32/Mytob-BW copies itself to the Windows system folder as
explorer.exe and creates the following registry entries:
HKCU\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
WksSVC
"EXPLORER.exe"
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
WksSVC
"EXPLORER.exe"
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
WksSVC
"EXPLORER.exe"
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
WksSVC
"EXPLORER.exe"
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Ole
WksSVC
"EXPLORER.exe"
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
WksSVC
"EXPLORER.exe"
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
WksSVC
"EXPLORER.exe"
W32/Mytob-BW copies itself to the root folder as:
funny_pic.scr
my_photo2005.scr
see_this!!.scr
and drops a file called hellmsn.exe (detected by Sophos as W32/Mytob-D) in the
same location. This component attempts to spread the worm by sending the
aforementioned SCR files through Windows Messenger to all online contacts.
W32/Mytob-BW 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
W32/Mytob-BW is capable of spreading through email and through various
operating system vulnerabilities such as LSASS (MS04-011). Email sent by
W32/Mytob-BW has the following properties:
Subject line:
document
Good day
Hello
Mail Delivery System
Mail Transaction Failed
message
readme
Server Report
Status
Message text:
'This is a multi-part message in MIME format.'
'Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.'
'The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary
attachment.'
'The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as
a binary attachment.'
'The original message was included as an attachment.'
'Here are your banks documents.'
The attached file consists of a base name followed by the extentions 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-BW harvests email addresses from files on the infected computer and
from the Windows address book. The worm avoids sending email to addresses that
contain the following:
.gov
.mil
accoun
acketst
admin
anyone
arin.
avp
berkeley
borlan
bsd
bsd
bugs
ca
certific
contact
example
feste
fido
foo.
fsf.
gnu
gold-certs
google
google
gov.
help
iana
ibm.com
icrosof
icrosoft
ietf
info
inpris
isc.o
isi.e
kernel
linux
linux
listserv
math
me
mit.e
mozilla
mydomai
no
nobody
nodomai
noone
not
nothing
ntivi
page
panda
pgp
postmaster
privacy
rating
rfc-ed
ripe.
root
ruslis
samples
secur
sendmail
service
site
soft
somebody
someone
sopho
submit
support
syma
tanford.e
the.bat
unix
unix
usenet
utgers.ed
webmaster
you
your
Sophos's anti-virus products include Genotype ? detection technology, which can
proactively protect against new threats without requiring an update. Sophos
customers have been protected against W32/Mytob-BW (detected as W32/Mydoom-Gen)
since version 3.92.
This IDE file also includes detection for:
W32/Agobot-RU
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotru.html
W32/Warmth-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32warmtha.html
W32/Scold-B
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32scoldb.html
Troj/Dloader-MZ
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloadermz.html
Troj/Sympe-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsympea.html
Troj/Tinydl-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojtinydla.html
Download the IDE file from:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/mytob-bw.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
Other related posts:
- » [virusinfo] W32/Mytob-BW
