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alien8

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reply to kpatz
Re: W32.Sober.O@mm/Sober.P

This weekly virus graph from my isp shows the pattern nicely:
»portal.plus.net/support/features···ly.shtml

You can see sober.p suddenly stopping!

Cheers,

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reply to Schouw
Shouw - Not only interesting but relevant!

Thanks shouw, the information is very much interesting .

This series looks much better planned and the execution reflects the effort of a profit making venture. Corporate patch management should be so effective at rolling out code.

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reply to kpatz
Re: W32.Sober.O@mm/Sober.P

No intention to spam here, but you might find this interesting.

It mentions - albeit briefly - why you aren't seeing any Sober mails at this moment.
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reply to EGeezer
Re: Cattleprod.WIN32.A

According to F-Secure's statistics page for Sober.P, submissions have dropped off dramatically today compared to yesterday. Netsky.P and Lovgate.W are now ahead of Sober.P on their top 10. Does it have a hard coded drop dead date? There's no mention in any of the write-ups. Has anyone been hit today, or seen a drop off in hits?
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 reply to kpatz
maybe the cattleprod worm could solve a lot of the problems;
CATTLEPROD.WIN32.A
Platforms: Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win NT, Win 2K, Win XP

Aliases; Dingzap.MM, emptybelfry.WIN32@.b, LIGHTMEUP.KB.MM, mousefun.WIN32.zap, slimtorture.A

Arrival Form: Email
Type: Win32, Worm, Trojan
Damage: None, provides user training and negative reinforcement

The arriving email will have the following characteristics:
Subject: The subject of this mail will be one of the following:

*IMPORTANT* Please Validate Your Email Account
*IMPORTANT* Your Account Has Been Locked
[random text string]
Email Account Suspension
Notice: **Last Warning**
Notice:***Your email account will be suspended***
Security measures
Your email account access is restricted
Your Email Account is Suspended For Security Reasons

Attached File: The attached file will have one of the following names:
[random text string]
document_full
email-doc
email-info
email-text
IMPORTANT
information
info-text
your_details

followed by one of the following extensions:
bat
cmd
exe
pif
scr
zip

Malicious Activity
--------------------------
When the worm is executed it does the following:

Causes keyboard and mouse to be energized with cattle prod voltage.

Screen saver activates with "What the hell were you THINKING when you opened that???

Volume control locked to maximum, loops on "Slim Whitman sings Queen's Greatest Hits"

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reply to EGeezer
Re: Sober / Mytob writeup - Aladdin

Many of these worms are similar enough in behavior that it's easy to get them mixed up. With the similarity in most of the emails, I'm surprised people still open them. Well maybe I shouldn't be surprised...

I see a worm email, 99% of the time I *know* it's a worm, and usually which worm it is without even scanning the attachment. Especially if it's one I've seen before. I can recognize the latest Sober just by the subject line.

My inboxes have been quiet the past few days too. But then I've only seen a half dozen or so, not like some people who have been hammered with dozens or hundreds of copies.
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reply to kpatz
I've seen them used interchangeably last few days. Gah, the mess this stuf makes.

Here's why I posted here instead of a new thread - DiskDrive See Profile also noted the multi-nomenclature (new word )

»New Sober Variant???

Maybe I should put in a new topic?

EDIT - Noticed this morning, NO new SOBERS showed up at all - I had been as many as 20 a day, all scrubbed by RoadRunner. *waits for the next round*

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reply to EGeezer
EGeezer, that is a writeup for a Mytob variant, not Sober. Different worm, different name, different email texts, same annoyances.
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reply to kpatz
I wish they could make up their mind. Call it something, stick to it - From Aladdin Systems, who usually do good writeups when they do them ;
said by Aladdin newsletter:
====================================================
Aladdin Content Security Response Team - Virus Alert
====================================================

Win32.Mytob.eg
===========================

Virus/Vandal name: Win32.Mytob.eg
Threat Level: Medium
Alias: WORM_MYTOB.EG, Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.au, W32/Mytob-AU
Platforms: Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win NT, Win 2K, Win XP
Updated on: May 10, 2005
Arrival Form: Email
Type: Win32, Worm, Trojan
Damage: Create files, Modify files, Send Email, Remote control, Lowers
security

Introduction
---------------------
Win32.Mytob.eg is a mass-mailing worm which opens a backdoor on infected
systems and terminates security-related processes.

The arriving email will have the following characteristics:

Subject: The subject of this mail will be one of the following:

*IMPORTANT* Please Validate Your Email Account
*IMPORTANT* Your Account Has Been Locked
[random text string]
Email Account Suspension
Notice: **Last Warning**
Notice:***Your email account will be suspended***
Security measures
Your email account access is restricted
Your Email Account is Suspended For Security Reasons

Body: The body of this mail will be one of the following:

[random text string]

Account Information Are Attached!

Once you have completed the form in the attached file , your account
records will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

please look at attached document.

To safeguard your email account from possible termination, please see the
attached file.

To unblock your email account acces, please see the attachement.

We have suspended some of your email services, to resolve the problem you
should read the attached document.

Attached File: The attached file will have one of the following names:

[random text string]
document_full
email-doc
email-info
email-text
IMPORTANT
information
info-text
your_details

followed by one of the following extensions:

bat
cmd
exe
pif
scr
zip

Malicious Activity
--------------------------
When the worm is executed it does the following:

1. It drops a copy of itself, internet.exe, into the default Windows
System folder.

2. To run on every startup, the worm creates the following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Internet Services = 'internet.exe'

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Internet Services = 'internet.exe'

3. When it runs on an up-to-date version of Windows XP, the worm will
disable the firewall by modifying the following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess
Start = '4'

4. The worm is also capable of connecting to an IRC server and listening
to incoming commands coming from a specific channel. This may allow a
hacker to take over the infected system.

5. The worm then terminates several security-related processes and also
blocks access to such websites to prevent security updates.

6. Finally, the worm will harvest email addresses from the infected system
and send itself to most contacts found. Some addresses may be avoided by
the worm.

eSafe Users
---------------------
eSafe users are protected against this vandal using the latest
vandal/virus update.

[rant]
Given the hokey email subject lines and attachment names and how often they're associated with malware, it's amazing people still bite on them - but they do, providing us with gainful employment, hobbyist activity and bemusement .
[/rant]

EG


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reply to amysheehan
Re: W32.Sober.O@mm/Sober.P

said by amysheehan See Profile:

said by Chris 313 See Profile:

I'm ok. I didn't even touch the zip file.
I was just curious to know whether MSN actually had stripped the contents of that zip file since the text of the email said it was clean...

That's likely a fake message put there by the worm itself.
If you look at other copies of similar worms lately, they
are all doing something like this, claiming that the
attachment was scanned by antivirus software and found clean.
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reply to kpatz
According to UK antivirus company Sophos, the Sober.P
worm now constitutes roughly 5% of all email traffic (as
of Friday Morning), and 77% of all virus activity they
are seeing:

»news.com.com/Sober+worm+makes+a+···nefd.top
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reply to kpatz
I am getting about 40-60 or so a day for the past few days all to my junk mail folder on my hotmail account. None on my gmail, none on my yahoo, no other email addys are getting hit. I just have to keep deleteing the junk mail from the folder several times a day to get rid of all of them. The size is a good tale tell sign for sure.

Apparently someone is opening the things for them to be so rampant.


Shriyash
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reply to kpatz
actually kaptz, the file is 0.05MB not kb, and so the size will be around 53kb, so i think the worm wasnt stripped of its potency.

kpatz
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reply to amysheehan
said by amysheehan See Profile:

I was just curious to know whether MSN actually had stripped the contents of that zip file since the text of the email said it was clean...
The text stating the attachment is "clean" or "no virus found" is generated by the worm itself and is meaningless. It's just another one of its social engineering tactics, to get people to "trust" the attachment.

However, I did notice that your zip file was only .05K in size, meaning it was probably stripped before it even reached your hotmail/MSN account. Perhaps it passed through an outbound scanner before it reached you.

EDIT: It says .05M so it could still contain the worm which is roughly 73K in size encoded. Nice way of measuring attachment size there, Microsoft...
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reply to amysheehan
said by amysheehan See Profile:

said by Chris 313 See Profile:

I'm ok. I didn't even touch the zip file.
I was just curious to know whether MSN actually had stripped the contents of that zip file since the text of the email said it was clean...
Someone else I know had that kind of text in the email and the file had NOT been cleaned - they didn't open the zip but scanned it only to find it was not cleaned as MSN had 'suggested'...
More worried about others who are more worried about not deleting it as junk and opening the zip without a thought...:)
I don't know weather the file was actually clean as I dumped everything in my Junk folder after making the screenshot.

Being worried about others is where a good crash course in today's internet threats and protection and prevention comes in.

I personally got sick of seeing all the crap being mixed in with my legit mail and set up my protection to only receive from addresses i know, all else is sent to junk and i sort it out daily.


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said by Chris 313 See Profile:

I'm ok. I didn't even touch the zip file.
I was just curious to know whether MSN actually had stripped the contents of that zip file since the text of the email said it was clean...
Someone else I know had that kind of text in the email and the file had NOT been cleaned - they didn't open the zip but scanned it only to find it was not cleaned as MSN had 'suggested'...
More worried about others who are more worried about not deleting it as junk and opening the zip without a thought...:)


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I'm ok. I didn't even touch the zip file.


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reply to GKJUG
I noticed that at the beginning of the week when this started here, I was finding that they had originated from the .nl domain extention. I guess it spread to Germany and then the US about the same time. Nasty, because unlike previous worms, Earthlink's Spaminator is not blocking the e-mails. It'd AV is stripping out the virus, at least here on my account. Volume is getting annoying though.
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said by Chris 313 See Profile:

It looks like i got one.

Does this look it?

It was sent to my junkmail folder.
Let's hope that the Zip file was cleaned before it was downloaded...

My son got one earlier that included the zip attachment however we found it had been cleaned by RR before he ever downloaded the message...



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reply to Greg_Z
Click for full size
It looks like i got one.

Does this look it?

It was sent to my junkmail folder.
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