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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : NetSky.I

[Summary] | [Disinfection] | [Detailed Description] | [Detection]



NAME:NetSky.I
ALIAS:W32/NetSky.I@mm, I-Worm.NetSky.i, W32.NetSky.I@mm
SIZE:22016

Summary

A new variant of Netsky worm - Netsky.I was found on March 7th, 2004. This worm variant sends messages with an attachment name that looks like a hyperlink to INDEX.SCR file.

Disinfection

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

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

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

Disinfection instructions can be found here:

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

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

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Detailed Description

Descriptions of all previous NetSky worm variants can be found here:

W32/NetSky.A@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/moodown.shtml

W32/NetSky.B@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_b.shtml

W32/NetSky.C@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_c.shtml

W32/NetSky.D@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_d.shtml

W32/NetSky.E@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_e.shtml

W32/NetSky.F@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_f.shtml

W32/NetSky.G@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_g.shtml

W32/NetSky.H@mm: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/netsky_h.shtml

The worm's file is a PE executable file 22016 bytes long, packed with PE-Pack file compressor. The unpacked file's size is over 27 kilobytes.

NetSky.I worm has a few modifications comparing to previous variants:

1. The worm uses a different mutex: "KO[SkyNet.cz]SystemsMutex"

2. The worm has a bit different message for Bagle And Mydoom worm authors

3. On March 5th, 2004 the worm constantly beeps with PC speaker from 11:00 to 11:59. Below is the link to the WAV file with the sound that the worm makes:

http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/v-pics/netsky_d.wav

4. The worm uses the following subject texts:

 Mail account deactivated
 Mail account closed
 Mail account expired

5. The worm uses the following message body texts:

 Your mail account expired. Please follow the link to reactivate.
 Your mail account has been closed. Click on the link for further details.
 Your mail account has been deactivated. To reactivate, follow the link.

6. The worm sends itself as an attachment which name looks like a hyperlink:

 http://www.<recipient's_domain>/<recipients's_user_name>/index.scr

Where the <recipient's_domain> represents the domain name and suffix of an infected message's recipient and the <recipients's_user_name> represents the user name of a recipient.

7. The sender's name of an infected message is always 'service@<recipient's_domain>' where <recipient's_domain> represents the domain name and suffix of an infected message's recipient.

8. The worm installs itself to system as FOODING.EXE file.

9. The worm creates the startup key named 'Tiny AV' for its file in System Registry.


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Detection

Detection of NetSky.I worm is available in the following FSAV updates:

[FSAV_Database_Version]

Version=2004-03-08_05

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Description: Katrin Tocheva, March 7th, 2004;

Technical Details: Alexey Podrezov, March 8th, 2004;

Description Updated: Alexey Podrezov, March 18th, 2004;

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