F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Mimail.Q
[Summary] | [Detailed Description] | [Detection]
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Mimail.Q worm was first found on 26th of January, 2004. As with previous
versions, the worm steals personal, and credit card information from users by
asking them to fill a fake Microsoft form.
The worm is wrapped in a polymorphic envelope, executables containing the
worm will be different every time the worm spreads.
System Infection
When the worm's file is run, it registers itself as a service process and
becomes invisible in Task List on Windows 9x systems.
The the worm copies itself as "Sys32.exe" and "outlook.exe" file to Windows
directory and creates a startup key for this file in System Registry:
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"System" = "%windir%\sys32.exe"
where %windir% is Windows directory name.
After installation the worm looks for cookie files in shell
folders and if it finds 'e-gold.com' string in any of them, it
creates a special key in the Registry.
After initial startup the worm asks a user to fill a fake Microsoft
form. Information from that form is saved to a file and is sent
to the worm's author. The form pages look like that:
The collected data is saved to a file named "mminfo.txt" that is
located in the root of C: drive.
The worm drops the following files onto a hard disk:
c:\mshome.hta - fake Microsoft form page
c:\logobig.gif - picture shown in the form page
c:\wind.gif - picture shown in the form page
The worm starts its main 3 threads only if it can resolve
'www.google.com' address i.e. when connection to Internet is
available.
The worm listens to port 3000 for incoming traffic. When there's an incoming
traffic, the worm creates a pipe and runs 'cmd.exe', giving the attacker a
command line into the infected computer.
E-Mail propagation spreading
The worm was seeded in messages with the following format:
Subject:
Hi my sweet Nancy!
Body:
Hi my sweet Nancy,
I have been thinking about you all night...
I would like to apologize for the other night when we made beautiful love and
did not use condoms.
I know.. this was a mistake and I beg you to forgive me..
Nancy, I miss you more than anything, please call me, I need you...
Do you remember when we were having wild sex in my house? I remember it all
like it was only yesterday.
You said that the photos would not come out good, but you were wrong, they are
great.
I didn't want to show you the pictures at first, but.. now I think it's time
for you to see them.
Please look in the attachment and you will see what I mean.
I love you with all my heart,
Frank
Attachment:
photos.scr
When spreading by itself, this variant of the worm composes e-mail form a
selection of text strings within its body.
The name of the attachment is composed as follows, the first part of the
filename is chosen from:
my
priv
private
prv
the
best
super
great
cool
wild
sex
fuck
With a separator selected from:
_ (underscore)
- (dash)
__ (double underscore)
Followed by a second word, form the list:
pic
img
phot
photos
pctrs
images
imgs
scene
plp
act
action
The extension of the attachment if chosen from the following list:
.pif
.scr
.exe
.jpg.scr
.jpg.pif
.jpg.exe
.gif.exe
.gif.pif
.gif.scr
To collect victim's e-mail addresses the worm scans all files on
a hard drive except those with the following extensions:
bmp
jpg
gif
exe
dll
avi
mpg
mp3
vxd
ocx
psd
tif
zip
rar
pdf
cab
wav
com
The collected e-mail addresses are saved into "outlook.cfg" file
located in Windows folder.
To send e-mails the worm tries to contact the recipient's SMTP
server directly. For this purpose it tries to resolve the current
user's DNS server and search for SMTP server info for recipient's
domain.
Payload
Beside stealing user's data from a fake Microsoft webform, the worm
also attempts to steal information from E-Gold online payment
system users. It collects certain data to a file named TMPEG2.TXT
that is located in the root of C: drive. The worm then encrypts
this file and saves the contents to TMPGLD.TXT file. Then this
file is sent by e-mail to an e-mail address that is hardcoded in
the worm's body.
The worm contains the immature threat within its body:
*** GLOBAL WARNING: if any free email company or hosting company will
close/filter my emai l/site accounts, it will be DDoS'ed in next version.
WARNING: centrum.cz will be DDoS'ed in next versions, coz they have closed my
mimail-email account. Who next? ***
visit our friendly site www.blackgate.us
F-Secure is not aware of any possible relationship between "www.blackgate.us"
and the creators of the worm.
Detection for Mimail.Q is available in the following FSAV updates:
[FSAV_Database_Version]
Version=2004-01-26_02
Technical Details:
Ero Carrera; January 26th, 2004;
F-Secure Corporation
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