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This is the worm virus spreading via the Internet being attached to infected emails. The worm itself is a Windows PE EXE file about 107Kb of length, written in Visual Basic (VB5).
The worm activates from infected email only in case a user clicks on attached file. The worm then installs itself to the system, runs spreading routine and payload.
The infected messages have different texts and attached file names, they are randomly selected by worm while spreading from following variants:
Subjects are:
Cuidado con los virus!!! Tienes un virus!!! Me lo baje de Internet Una coa de la red
Bodies are:
%virusname% is "Nimda", "Magistr" or "Sircam".
Saludos
Me ha llegado el virus %virusname%, de tu ordenador, ya es la segunda vez
Pasa la vacuna que te envo, de Norton Antivirus
Y ten mas cuidado la prxima vez!
Un Saludo
Por Favor, revise su ordenador, me ha enviado el virus %virusname%
Le envo la vacuna facilitada por Norton Antivirus
Un Saludo
Hola, perdona, que te moleste, pero me has enviado un virus, el %virusname%
Te envo la vacuna de panda, Ten mas cuidado la prxima vez!
Hola
Te envo un fichero que me bajado de Internet, es una broma. mueve l
Ratn por toda la pantalla. No se quita ni pulsando control+alt+supr,
Jeje, al final hay que reiniciar. <
Attach filenames are:
MueveRaton.exe
AntiMagistr.exe
AntiNimda.exe
AntiSircam.exe
To send infected messages the worm scans *.EML, *.NWS, and *.DBX files, gets victim email addresses from there, then connects to SMTP server smtp.terra.es,then sends infected messages.
Installing
While installing the worm copies itself to Windows system directory with the REGWIZ.EXE name (and overwrites original Windows REGWIZ.EXE file in there),and registers this file in system registry auto-run key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run regwiz = %systemdir%\regwiz.EXE
The worm also sets ReadOnly, Hidden and System attributes for this file.
The worm then displays fake error message:
no es una aplicacin Win32 vlida
[ OK ]
Payload
The worm adds to C:\MSDOS.SYS file the command:
BootKeys=0
The effect of this is unability to break or trace booting process under Win9x systems.
The worm then stays in Windows memory as hidden application (system service) and runs payload routine - the mouse cusror is randomly moved on the screen, and mouse becomes unusable.
The worm also runs its internal counter in the registry key:
HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\regwiz\config
ejec = %number%
and increases this valie on each run. When this counter reaches 75, the worm alteres the registry key:
HKCU\Control Panel\DesktopScreenSaveActive = 0
then exits Windows and restarts the machine.
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