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Originally posted by flameredcorsab
this was in my corsa sport email:

Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.


foifibri

There is an attachment is says to click on, then probably prompts u to put in ur details.

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This is a mass-mailing and peer-to-peer file-sharing worm that bears the following characteristics:

contains its own SMTP engine to construct outgoing messages
contains a backdoor component (see below)
contains a Denial of Service payload
The virus arrives in an email message as follows:

From: (Spoofed email sender)
Do not assume that the sender address is an indication that the sender is infected. Additionally you may receive alert messages from a mail server that you are infected, which may not be the case.

Subject: (Varies, such as)

Error
Status
Server Report
Mail Transaction Failed
Mail Delivery System
hello
hi
Body: (Varies, such as)

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.
The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.
Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.
Attachment: (varies [.bat, .exe, .pif, .cmd, .scr] - often arrives in a ZIP archive) (22,528 bytes)

examples (common names, but can be random)
doc.bat
document.zip
message.zip
readme.zip
text.pif
hello.cmd
body.scr
test.htm.pif
data.txt.exe
file.scr
In the case of two file extensions, multiple spaces may be inserted as well, for example:

document.htm (many spaces) .pif
The icon used by the file tries to make it appear as if the attachment is a text file:




When this file is run (manually), it copies itself to the WINDOWS SYSTEM directory as taskmon.exe

%SysDir%\taskmon.exe
(Where %Sysdir% is the Windows System directory, for example C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM)


It creates the following registry entry to hook Windows startup:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run "TaskMon" = %SysDir%\taskmon.exe
The virus uses a DLL that it creates in the Windows System directory:

%SysDir%\shimgapi.dll (4,096 bytes)
This DLL is injected into the EXPLORER.EXE upon reboot via this registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E6FB5E20-DE35-11CF-9C87-00AA005127ED}\InProcServer32 "(Default)" = %SysDir%\shimgapi.dll
The virus will not replicate on the 12th February or later (although the DLL will still be installed).

Peer To Peer Propagation
The worm copies itself to the KaZaa Shared Directory with the following filenames:

nuke2004
office_crack
rootkitXP
strip-girl-2.0bdcom_patches
activation_crack
icq2004-final
winamp
Remote Access Component
The worm (this functionality is in the dropped DLL) opens a connection on TCP port 3127 (if that fails it opens next available port up to port 3198). The worm can accept specially crafted TCP transmissions.

On receipt of one kind of such a transmission it will save the embedded binary into a temporary file and execute it. Then the temporary file is deleted.
On receipt of another kind it can relay TCP packets thus providing IP spoofing capabilities (possibly to facilitate SPAM distribution)
Denial of Service Payload
On the first system startup on February 1st or later, the worm changes its behavior from mass mailing to initiating a denial of service attack against the sco.com domain. This denial of service attack will stop on the first system startup of February 12th or later, and thereafter the worm's only behavior is to continue listening on TCP port 3127.

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Originally posted by flameredcorsab
this was in my corsa sport email:

Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.


foifibri

There is an attachment is says to click on, then probably prompts u to put in ur details.

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