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News Overview 2003.

December 2003.

  • W32.Scold.A aka Scold.A: a mass-mailing worm that uses Microsoft Outlook to send itself to contacts in the Outlook address book.

  • W32.Mimail.M aka mimail.M: a W32.Mimail.L variant.
    Attachment name: wendy.zip or only_for_greg.zip

  • W32.Mimail.L aka Mimail.L: another W32.Mimail variant. Spreads by email and steals information from infected computers.
    Attachment name: wendy.zip

November 2003.

  • W32.Mimail.J aka Mimail.J:a mass-mailing worm very similar to W32.Mimail.I.
    Attachment name: InfoUpdate.exe -or- www.paypal.com.pif

  • W32.Mimail.I aka Mimail.I - Paylap:a mass-mailing worm which attempts to steal credit card information.
    Attachment name: paypal.asp.scr -or- www.paypal.com.scr

  • W32.Mimail variants [D/E] :variant of W32.Mimail.C@mm.
    Attachment name: readnow.zip

October 2003.

  • W32.Mimail.C aka Mimail.C :variant of W32.Mimail.A@mm that spreads by email and steals information from infected computers.
    Attachment name: photos.zip

  • W32.Sober aka Sober:a mass-mailing worm that Will disguis itself as a security warning for a new worm and a fix from an AV company. Using its own SMTP engine to spread. Attachment will have a .bat, .com, .exe, .pif, or .scr file extension.

September 2003.

  • W32.Swen.A aka Swen:a mass-mailing worm that tries to disable antivirus/firewall software. Attempt to spread itself through Kaza and IRC and also to send itselfto addresses found in the Microsoft Outlook address book.

  • W32.Blaster.Worm.F aka Lovsan.F:variant of W32.Blaster.Worm. Characteristic is the existence of file Enbiei.exe which it will try to download and run.

August 2003.

  • W32.Blaster.Worm.E aka Lovsan.E:variant of W32.Blaster.Worm. Characteristic is the existence of file mslaugh.exe which it will try to download and run.

  • W32.Blaster.Worm aka Lovsan: HP OpenView has determined that the worm virus recently referred to as "Blaster" or "W32.Blaster.worm", may impact hp OpenView products running on Microsoft Windows, HPUX, Solaris and Linux.

  • W32.Dumaru@mm aka Dumaru: another mass-mailing worm. Collects emails addresses, drops an IRC Trojan onto the infected machine and uses its own SMTP engine to email itself.
    Attachment name: patch.exe

  • W32.Blaster.Worm.D aka W32.Welchia.Worm - W32/nachi - welchi: functionally similar to W32.Blaster.Worm aka Lovsan. Uses files named DLLHOST.EXE and SVCHOST.EXE which is a tftp server. Both files are also genuine windows system files.

  • W32.Sobig.F aka Sobig.F: a new Sobig member. Sends itself to all the email addresses that it finds in the files with the following extensions: .dbx, .eml, .hlp, .htm, .html, .mht, .wab, .txt

  • W32.Blaster.Worm.C aka Lovsan.C: variant of W32.Blaster.Worm. Characteristic is the existence of file teekids.exe which it will try to download and run.

  • W32.Blaster.Worm.B aka Lovsan.B: variant of W32.Blaster.Worm. Characteristic is the existence of file penis32.exe which it will try to download and run.

  • W32.Blaster.Worm aka Lovsan: a worm that will exploit the DCOM RPC vulnerability by using TCP port 135. Characteristic is the existence of file Msblast.exe which it will try to download and run.

  • Backdoor.IRC.Cirebot aka RPC - Downloader.DM: a Trojan Horse that exploits the Microsoft DCOM RPC vulnerability. Will install Trojan Horse on vulnerable systems. Characteristic is the existence of files: C:\Rpc.exe, C:\Rpctest.exe, or C:\Lolx

  • W32.Mimail.A aka Mimail: a worm that spreads by email with the ability to capture users information. Uses it's own SMTP engine to send email to addresses found in files without extension[s]:
    COM,WAV,CAB,PDF,RAR,ZIP,TIF,PSD,OCX,VXD,MP3,MPG,AVI,DLL,EXE,GIF,JPG,BMP
    Attachment name: message.zip

July 2003.

  • W32.MyLife.M aka W32.MyLife.N: latest variant of W32.MyLife family.
    Attachment name: Julia_Roberts_F*cking_toilet.Mpeg_.scr or Shakira_1997_part_1_.Mpeg_.scr

June 2003.

  • W32.Colevo aka W32.Vivael: a mass-mailing worm sends itself to all
    the MSN messenger contacts of the user using its own SMTP engine.
    Attachment name: hotmailpass.exe

  • W32.Sobig.E aka Sobig.E: variant of W32.Sobig

  • W32.Yaha.T aka Yaha.T: new member of the Yaha family.

  • W32.HLLW.Magold.E aka Magold.E - W32.Auric.E.: sends itself to all the contacts in the Windows Address Book and to email addresses in files whose extension begins with "ht."
    Attachment name: Sziszi_video.scr.

  • W32.Bugbear.B aka Tanatos: variant of W32.Bugbear.A

May 2003.

  • W32.Sobig.C aka Sobig.C: variant of W32.Sobig.B. Characteristic is the
    senders address 'bill@microsoft.com'.

  • W32.HLLW.Magold aka Magold - W32.Auric: a mass-mailing worm that attempts to spread
    over e-mail, P2P networks and IRC chat. Will send itself to all contacts in the Windows Address
    Book and in files with the .html, .htm, and .hta extensions. When executed, a fake message box
    with the title "Directx" will be displayed.
    Attachment name: Maya Gold.scr.

  • W32.Naco.B aka Naco.B - Anacon.B: a mass-mailing worm containing multiple threats:
    [1] Attempts to spread itself through file-sharing networks KaZaA, Limewire, Morpheus, Grokster, Bearshare, and Edonkey2000 and through email.
    [2] Contains Backdoor functionality and tries to replace HTML files on the Microsoft IIS server.
    [3] Will try to perform a DOS [Denial of Service] attack against a predefined list of sites.
    [4] Attemps to delete files and format hard disk[s].
    Attachment name: WARS.EXE

  • W32.Sobig.B aka Sobig.B - Palyh: sends itself to email addresses found in files with extension: .wab, .dbx, .htm, .html, .eml, .txt
    Characteristic is file: msccn32.exe

  • W32.HLLW.Lovgate.K aka Lovgate: minor variant of W32.HLLW.Lovgate.

  • W32.HLLW.Lovgate.J aka Lovgate: minor variant of W32.HLLW.Lovgate.

  • W32.HLLW.Fizzer aka Fizzer: a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all contacts in the Windows Address Book. Contains a backdoor that uses mIRC to communicate with an attacker, a keylogger and attempts to spread through the KaZaA network.

April 2003.

  • W32.HLLW.Cult.B aka W32/Lanet: a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to
    spread itself. Attempts to spread using the KaZaA file-sharing network.
    Attachment: BlueMountaineCard.pif

March 2003.

  • W32.HLLW.Lovgate.G aka Lovgate: minor variant of W32.HLLW.Lovgate.C. Same backdoor
    and worm capabilities. Doen't function correct under WIN9X/ME.

  • W32.Ganda aka Ganda: uses it's own SMTP engine to send e-mails to addresses collected from Windows Address Book. Included with the messages is an SCR (screen saver) attachment.

  • CodeRed.F aka W32.Bady.F: a new variant in the CodeRed family. Minor changes in the source code, but with same impact for unprotected IIS Web servers.

  • HLLW.W32.Deloder aka Deloder: a network-aware worm that attempts to connect to a target host, using TCP port 445 [Windows 2000 and Windows XP only]. If the connection is succesful, file Inst.exe will be copied to hard-coded locations. File Inst.exe is a backdoor Trojan component that is detected as Backdoor.Dvldr. After this, W32.HLLW.Deloder will load from the Startup folder when you start Windows.

  • W32.Bibrog: a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the contacts in the Outlook Address Book. Attempts to spread through KaZaA, Grokster, and Morpheus file-sharing networks, as well as ICQ.
    Attachment name: Academia.exe

  • W32.Yaha.P aka Yaha.P: uses its own SMTP engine to email itself to all the contacts in the Windows Address Book, MSN Messenger, .NET Messenger, Yahoo Pager, and in all the files whose extensions contain the letters HT.

February 2003.

  • W32.HLLW.Lovgate.C aka Lovgate: has both backdoor and worm capabilities. As a worm, it
    spreads via email and network-shared folders. As a backdoor, it allows remote users to access
    the system through port 10168.

January 2003.

  • W32.SQLExp aka W32/SQLSlammer - Slammer: a worm that targets the systems running
    Microsoft SQL Server 2000, as well as Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) 2000. The worm sends 376 bytes to UDP port 1434, the SQL Server Resolution Service Port.

  • W32.Sobig.A aka Sobig: spreads via email and network shared drives. Tries to download other files from web pages located on a geocities site. Sends itself to all the addresses it finds in .txt, .eml, .html, .htm, .dbx, and .wab files.
    Attachment name: Movie_0074.mpeg.pif - Document003.pif - Untitled1.pif - Sample.pif

  • W32.Lirva.A aka Avril: a mass-mailing worm that also spreads by IRC, ICQ, KaZaA, and open network shares. Tries to terminate antivirus and firewall products. It also emails the cached Windows 95/98/Me dial-up networking passwords to the virus writer.


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