Name :	Email-Worm:W32/Zhelatin.KC
Category:	Malware
Type:	Email-Worm
Platform:	W32

Zhelatin.KC is a bot that communicates via Overnet P2P protocol and is mainly used to send spam. It has rootkit functionalities that hide its presence in the infected system.

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Zhelatin.KC does the following upon initial installation:

The other routines of the malware are continued after the infected system is rebooted.The following is how the malware is launched during system startups:

Once loaded, spooldr.exe creates a file called spooldr.cfg which contains its initial list of peers in the current directory of the running process. Since it does not have its own process, it will take the current directory of explorer.exe instead. This usually leads to spooldr.cfg being created in the home directory of the current user. Additionally, Spooldr.sys hides all filenames that start with "spooldr" in the system, therefore you might not find the created files once the rootkit has been loaded.The malware then tries to communicate with the other peers via the Overnet P2P protocol on how to proceed.The malware has the ability to do the following: