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BAGLE.AZ - MEDIUM RISK by Secunia and McAfee

 BAGLE.AZ - MEDIUM RISK (DAT 4395 RELEASED)
http://secunia.com/virus_information/12352/bagle.az/
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.ar@mm.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_128582.htm
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/bagle_as.shtml

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
  • contains a remote access component
  • copies itself to folders that have the phrase shar in the name (such as common peer-to-peer applications; KaZaa, Bearshare, Limewire, etc)

FORMAT OF INFECTED EMAIL MESSAGES

From : (address is spoofed)
Subject :

Re:
Re: Hello
Re: Thank you!
Re: Thanks :)
Re: Hi
Body Text:

:)
:))
Attachment: (with an extension of .exe, .scr, .com or .cpl)

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