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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

Security Best Practices, Breaking News, & Updates

Bagle.AI - Medium Risk

  Bagle.AI - Medium Risk (McAfee)

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_126798.htm
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/bagle_ai.shtml
http://secunia.com/virus_information/10740/bagle.ai/

  Beagle.AG - Medium Risk (Symantec) 

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.ag@mm.html

  VirusTotal reports significant infections

http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html

This is a mass-mailing worm with the following characteristics:

  • contains its own SMTP engine to construct outgoing messages
  • harvests email addresses from the victim machine
  • the From: address of messages is spoofed
  • attachment can be a password-protected zip file, with the password included in the message body.
  • contains a remote access component (notification is sent to hacker)
  • copies itself to folders that have the phrase shar in the name (such as common peer-to-peer applications; KaZaa, Bearshare, Limewire, etc)
  • uses various mutex names selected from those W32/Netsky variants have used, in order to prevent those W32/Netsky variants running on infected machines
  • terminates processes of security programs and other worms
  • deletes registry entries of security programs and other worms

From : (address is spoofed)
Subject :  Re:

Body Text:

  • >foto3 and MP3
  • >fotogalary and Music
  • >fotoinfo
  • >Lovely animals
  • >Animals
  • >Predators
  • >The snake
  • >Screen and Music

The worm will add the following body text if the attachment is sent as a password-protected ZIP file. 

  • Password: (random number)
  • Pass - (random number)
  • Key - (random number)

Attachment: (with extension .EXE, .SCR, .COM, .CPL or .ZIP)

  • MP3
  • Music_MP3
  • New_MP3_Player
  • Cool_MP3
  • Doll
  • Garry
  • Cat
  • Dog
  • Fish