Summary

This Korgo (aka Padobot) variant was found on June 17th, 2004. It is a bit modified comparing to previous Korgo variants. Korgo.P worm spreads throughout the Internet using a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows LSASS. A description of the vulnerability can be found in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx

Disinfection

F-Secure provides the special disinfection utility to eliminate Korgo.P worm infection. You can download this utility from our ftp site:

ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/f-korgo.exe

ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/f-korgo.zip

Disinfection instructions can be found here:

ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/f-korgo.txt

System administrators who are using F-Secure Policy Manager, can distribute the tool as a JAR package automatically to all workstations.

System administrators can download the JAR version from:

http://www.europe.f-secure.com/tools/f-korgo.jar

ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/f-korgo.jar

Additional Details

The worm's file is a PE executable 9343 bytes long packed with a modified UPX file compressor. The unpacked file's size is about 19 kilobytes.

When the worm's file is run, it first deletes the FTPUPD.EXE file. Then the worm creates a mutex with the "uterm13" name. This is done to avoid loading multiple copies of the worm into memory.

Next, the worm deletes Registry key values and terminates processes with any of the following names:

Windows Security Manager Disk Defragmenter System Restore Service Bot Loader SysTray WinUpdate Windows Update Service avserve.exe avserve2.exeUpdate Service MS Config v13
The key values are deleted from the following Registry key:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
After that the worm installs itself to system and creates a startup key for its file in the Registry. The worm's file is copied to Windows System folder with a randomly generated name. The following Registry key is then created:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "Windows Update" = "%WinSysDir%\<random>.exe"
where WinSysDir represents Windows System directory name and <random> represents random characters. The name of the worm's file can be for example 'sjsudf.exe'.

Additionally the worm can create the following Registry key values:

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Wireless] "ID" "Client"
The worm tries to start its spreading routine as a remote thread of Windows Explorer. If this fails, the worm starts the spreading thread directly.

Unlike its previous variants, the worm does not connect to IRC, does not create an IDENT server on port 113 and does not start a backdoor on port 3067. Instead, the worm periodically connects to several websites (sometimes, depending on an internal flag, with a specially constructed URL) and reads a file from there. If the file's data does not contain 'zer0' string, the worm waits and re-connects again. But if the file contains 'zer0' string, the worm downloads an executable file from that website to Windows System folder and runs it. It should be noted that the worm performs a secure authentication before the file is downloaded.

Here's the list of websites that the worm tries to connect to:

mazafaka.ru xware.cjb.net citi-bank.ru konfiskat.org adult-empire.com parex-bank.ru kidos-bank.ru crutop.nu kavkaz.ru color-bank.ru master-x.com asechka.ru trojan.ru padonki.org f*ck.ru goldensand.ru filesearch.ru lovingod.host.sk www.redline.ru cvv.ru hackers.lv fethard.biz
Additionally the worm can listen on a random TCP port.

The worm spreads to remote computers using LSASS vulnerability. It contacts remote computers on TCP port 445, exploits the vulnerability and copies its file to a remote system.

Detection

Detection of Korgo.P/Padobot.G variant was published on June 17th, 2004 in the following F-Secure Anti-Virus update:

[FSAV_Database_Version]
Version=2004-06-17_03

Technical Details: Alexey Podrezov; June 18th, 2004;

Description Updated: Alexey Podrezov; June 23rd, 2004;