F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Dumaru

NAME:	Dumaru
ALIAS:	W32.Dumaru@mm
SIZE:	9216
ORIGIN:	Russia

This mass-mailer worm was discovered on 19th of August, 2003.

Dumaru is a file infector and a mass-mailer worm which tries to disguise itself as a security patch coming from Microsoft. The worm drops an IRC-controlled backdoor component to the infected system.

Technical details

Dumaru is packed with an unmodified version of UPX. The unpacked size of the worm is 20480 bytes.

When first run the worm infects the system by placing several of its copies in the system.

One copy goes to the System Directory as 'load32.exe' which is added to the registry as

'HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\load32'

Another copy of the worm is placed to the Windows Directory using the file name 'dllreg.exe' and added to 'win.ini' as follows:

 [windows]
 Run=dllreg.exe

Third one is copied to System Directory as 'vxdmgr32.exe' which is registered to 'system.ini':

 [Boot]
 Shell=explorer vxdmgr32.exe

The backdoor is dropped to the Windows directory as 'windrv.exe' and started. This file is detected by F-Secure Anti-Virus as Backdoor.Small.d.

Email propagation

Dumaru uses its own SMTP engine to send emails with infected attachments. The worm searches for email addresses on all drives recursively in files with the following extensions:

 .htm
 .wab
 .html
 .dbx
 .tbb
 .abd

Using its SMTP engine Dumaru sends infected emails to the addresses it collected. The infected emails have the following appearance:

 From: "Microsoft" <security@microsoft.com>
 Subject: Use this patch immediately !

 Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
 There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
 More than 500.000 already infected!

 Attachment: patch.exe

The email addresses the worm collects are written to a file called 'winload.log' in the Windows Directory.

File infection

If the infected system is installed on NT Filesystem Dumaru tries to infect EXE files with a companion method using the streams feature of NTFS. The original file content is copied to 'filename.exe:STR' stream and the file 'filename.exe' is overwritten with a copy of the virus. When 'filename.exe' is invoked the worm executes 'filename.exe:STR' instead.

Detection

F-Secure Anti-Virus detects these worm variants with:

[FSAV_Database_Version]

Version=2003-08-30_02

Technical Details: Ero Carrera and Gergely Erdelyi, 19th of August, 2003

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