The Plexus.A worm was found on June 3th, 2004. This worm spreads through Kazaa shares, email and through several vulnerabilities.
Based on the settings of your F-Secure security product, it will either move the file to the quarantine where it cannot spread or cause harm, or remove it.
A False Positive is when a file is incorrectly detected as harmful, usually because its code or behavior resembles known harmful programs. A False Positive will usually be fixed in a subsequent database update without any action needed on your part. If you wish, you may also:
Check for the latest database updates
First check if your F-Secure security program is using the latest updates, then try scanning the file again.
Submit a sample
After checking, if you still believe the file is incorrectly detected, you can submit a sample of it for re-analysis.
Note: If the file was moved to quarantine, you need to collect the file from quarantine before you can submit it.
Exclude a file from further scanning
If you are certain that the file is safe and want to continue using it, you can exclude it from further scanning by the F-Secure security product.
Note: You need administrative rights to change the settings.
The worm spreads using vulnerabilities MS04-011 (CAN-2003-0533) 'LSASS' and MS03-026.
Plexus.A will copy itself within the Windows directory structure and set a Registry entry to point to its executable. The added key is as follows:
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "NvClipRsv" = "%winsysdir%\upu.exe"
where %winsysdir% represents Windows System32 folder name.
When spreading through shares, the filenames used are:
ICQBomber.exe hx00def.exe YahooDBMails.exe UnNukeit9xNTICQ04noimageCrk.exe Shrek_2.exe InternetOptimizer1.05b.exe AVP5.xcrack.exe
The email in which the worm will spread have the following appearances.
Subject: RE: order Body: Here is the archive with those information, you asked me. And don't forget, it is strongly confidencial!!! Seya, man. P.S. Don't forget my fee ;) Attachment: SecUNCE.exe Subject: For you Body: Hi, my darling :) Look at my new screensaver. I hope you will enjoy... Your Liza AtlantI.exe Subject: Hi, Mike Body: My friend gave me this account generator for http://www.pantyola.com I wanna share it with you :) And please do not distribute it. It's private. Attachment: AGen1.03.exe Subject:Good offer. Body: Greets! I offer you full base of accounts with passwords of mail server yahoo.com. Here is archive with small part of it. You can see that all information is real. If you want to buy full base, pl ease reply me... Attachment:demo.exe Subject: RE: Body: Hi, Nick. In this archive you can find all those things, you asked me. See you. Steve Attachment: release.exe
Plexus will attempt to prevent users of Kaspersky products to download updates from the company's servers.
It will open the port 1250 allowing an attacker to upload additional components to the machine.