Re: Concept Virus(CV) V.5 - Quick analysis update

From: Brian Pomeroy (lunarat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 11:24:05 PDT

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    This morning I received an e-mail with the subject line "elvis presley -
    amazing grace" from asportalat_private and containing an attachment
    named read.exe.  I am suspecting this could be related.
    
    Brian Pomeroy
    e-Transformation/e-Medicine Center
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, PA USA
    http://www.chop.edu/
    pomeroyat_private || lunarat_private
    
    
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Olle Segerdahl" <olleat_private>
    To: <bugtraqat_private>; <incidentsat_private>
    Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:58 AM
    Subject: Concept Virus(CV) V.5 - Quick analysis update
    
    
    >
    > More infectation routes:
    >
    > The worm, upon infecting a new host, goes through all the
    > shared directories and their subdirecories and plants the
    > following files in each dir:
    >
    > sample.nws
    > sample.eml
    > desktop.eml
    > desktop.nws
    >
    > which are eml messages with copies of itself ("readme.exe")
    > autoloaded by a html script tag,
    >
    > riched20.dll
    >
    > which is a trojan dll version of itself probably designed
    > to infect people running notepad/wordpad in that dir.
    >
    >
    > It also infects htm/html/asp files all over the system with
    > a <SCRIPT> tag appendage that links to a readme.eml file in
    > the current directory, thus infecting more webservers and
    > even windows helpsystem and the IE "freindly" error messages.
    >
    > The worm puts a trojan mmc.exe in the winnt directory that
    > is a copy of itself in the above "readme.exe" format.....
    >
    > So in short: This thing spreads vi fileserver shares and
    > also infects all web content files it sees, it's EVIL.
    >
    > /olle
    >
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