Mimail.T

Summary

Mimail.T belongs to the Mimail mass-mailing worm family. It was first found on 5th of February, 2004.

Disinfection & Removal

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Technical Details

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 "kaspersky.exe" file to Windows directory and creates a startup key for this file in System Registry:

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
 "KasperskyAv" = "%windir%\kaspersky.exe"
 

where %windir% is Windows directory name.

Another copy is placed to the Windows Directory with the name 'ee98af.tmp' which is used later when the worm sends itself in infected emails.

The worm activates the following functions only if it can resolve 'www.google.com' address i.e. when connection to Internet is available.

E-Mail Propagation

When spreading through email this variant of the worm composes e-mail form a list 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
 s*x
 f*ck
 

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.

Technical Details: Gergely Erdelyi and Ero Carrera; February 5th, 2004