Post by StRiDeR on May 6, 2004 15:37:57 GMT 8
W32/Famus-A
Aliases
W32/Misodene.a@MM virus
Type
Win32 worm
Detection
A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Latest virus identities section, and will be incorporated into the June 2004 (3.82) release of Sophos Anti-Virus.
Customers using Enterprise Manager, PureMessage and any of the Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update.
Sophos has received several reports of this worm from the wild.
Description
W32/Famus-A is a mass mailing worm for the Windows platform that copies
itself to the system folder as the file PentagonSecret.xls.exe where the second
extension is several whitespace characters after the first in an attempt to disguise itself as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file. Copies of the worm will also have a crude Excel icon.
W32/Famus-A will make additional copies of itself as Casper9247.exe and
Red7324.exe in the Temp folder along with other non malicious files related to
the sent emails. Among these will be the file SMTP.OCX which is a freeware
SMTP engine used in the mailing of W32/Famus-A to members of the user's address book.
W32/Famus-A will send itself to members of the user's Outlook address book attached to an email with the following characteristics:
Subject:
Que sabe el Pentagono sobreusted (What the Pentagon knows about you)
Body:
?Crees que estas a salvo del Pentagono de los E.U? Mira estos datos y te
asombraras.
Do you believe you are safe from the Pentagon of the E.U? Just look these
data and you will be surprised
Password: 123
Attachment:
PentagonSecret.xls.exe
Another email will also be sent to the address segurmatic@yahoo.es with the
subject line of Reporte. This is likely to be a notification message sent to
the worm author.
Recovery
Please follow the instructions for removing worms.
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