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Worm.Win32.Zindos.a

Alert Level : Medium
Discovered: Jul 28 2004
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Discoverer and Source: http://www.kaspersky.com/

Malware Behavior and Technical Description

This worm spreads via the Internet using machines infected by I-Worm.Mydoom.m and penetrates victim machines via the backdoor installed by Mydoom.m

It is also programmed to conduct a DoS attack on www.microsoft.com.

The worm is approximately 5760 bytes in size and packed using UPX.

Installation

When launched, the worm copies itself under a random name to the system's temporary directory. It registers this file in the system registry, thus ensuring the worm file will be launched each time Windows is started.

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
  "Tray"=worm file name

The worm randomly generates an IP address and will attempt to connect to this address via TCP port 1034 (the port opened by Mydoom.m). If a connection is established, the worm will send itself to the victim machine.

DoS attack

The worm sends multiple URLDownloadToCacheFile requests to the Microsoft corporate site.

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Removal Worm.Win32.Zindos.a instructions:

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