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Shinobi
01-26-04, 11:03 PM
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W32.Novarg.A@mm 4
Discovered on: January 26, 2004
Last Updated on: January 26, 2004 06:08:08 PM



W32.Novarg.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm. The worm will arrive as an attachment with a file extension of .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip. The worm also contains functionality to perform as a proxy server. It listens on all TCP ports in the range 3127-3198.

The worm will perform a DoS starting on February 1, 2004. On February 12, 2004 the worm has a trigger date to stop spreading.




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Note: Symantec Consumer products that support Worm Blocking functionality automatically detect this threat as it attempts to spread.
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Also Known As: W32/Mydoom@MM [McAfee], WORM_MIMAIL.R [Trend]

Type: Worm
Infection Length: 22,528 bytes



Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 3.x






Virus Definitions (Intelligent Updater) *
January 26, 2004


Virus Definitions (LiveUpdate™) **
January 26, 2004


Damage

Payload Trigger: n/a
Payload: n/a
Large scale e-mailing: Sends to email addresses found in a specified set of files. It ignores email addresses that end in .edu.
Deletes files: n/a
Modifies files: n/a
Degrades performance: Performs DoS against www.sco.com.
Causes system instability: n/a
Releases confidential info: n/a
Compromises security settings: Allows unauthorized remote access.
Distribution

Subject of email: Varies
Name of attachment: Varies with an extension of .pif, .scr, .exe, .cmd, .bat, or .zip
Size of attachment: 22,258 bytes
Time stamp of attachment: n/a
Ports: TCP 3127-3198
Shared drives: n/a
Target of infection: n/a


When W32.Novarg.A@mm is executed it does the following:


Creates the following files:

"shimgapi.dll" in %System%
"Message" in %temp%. This file is full of random letters and is displayed via Notepad.
"taskmon.exe" in %System%. If a copy of taskmon.exe exists in the %System%, it is overwritten and replaced by this copy of the worm.


Shimgapi.dll acts as a proxy server. It opens TCP ports in the range of 3127 to 3198 for listening.


Adds the value

TaskMon = %System%\taskmon.exe

to the registry keys

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run


Can perform a Denial of Service against www.sco.com. Creates 64 threads which send GET requests. The DoS is active between February 1, 2004 and February 12, 2004.


Creates the following registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\ComDlg32\Version
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\ComDlg32\Version


Searches for email addresses in files with the following extensions. It ignores addresses which end in ".edu".

.htm
.sht
.php
.asp
.dbx
.tbb
.adb
.pl
.wab
.txt


Attempts to send emails by using its own SMTP engine. It performs a lookup of the mail server of the recipient in order to send. If it is unsuccessful it will use the local mail server.


The email will have the following characteristics:

From: may be a spoofed from address
Subject:
test
hi
hello
Mail Delivery System
Mail Transaction Failed
Server Report
Status
Error

Message:
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.

Attachment:
document
readme
doc
text
file
data
test
message
body

with one of the following suffixes:
pif
scr
exe
cmd
bat
zip


Copies itself to KaZaA download directory as one of the following files:

winamp5
icq2004-final
activation_crack
strip-girl-2.0bdcom_patches
rootkitXP
office_crack
nuke2004


with a file extension of

pif
scr
bat