F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Sober.V
[Summary] | [Detailed Description] | [Detection]
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THIS VIRUS IS RANKED AS LEVEL 2 ALERT UNDER F-SECURE RADAR.
Radar Alert LEVEL 2
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| NAME: | Sober.V |
| ALIAS: | Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.v, W32/Sober.V@mm |
The Sober.V worm was found on November 15th, 2005. This Sober
variant is similar to Sober.T, that appeared yesterday:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sober_t.shtml
Like the previous variants, this one sends itself inside a ZIP
archive as an attachment in e-mail messages with English or
German texts. We also received several different droppers for
this worm variant. They were apparently created by the worm
author manually. They are all detected as 'Sober.v'.
This Sober variant sends a bit different e-mail messages:
Subject:
Hi, Ich bin's
Body:
Hier ist die Liste die du haben wolltest.
Du solltest dich aber auch eintragen!
OK, bis dann
Attachment name starts with:
Liste
---- OR ----
Subject:
Thanks for your registration
Body:
Thanks for your registration!
We have received your payment.
For more detailed information, read the attached text.
Attachment:
reg_text.zip
Sober.V worm is detected with the following F-Secure Anti-Virus
updates:
Version=2005-11-15_01
Writeup:
Alexey Podrezov; November 15th, 2005;
F-Secure Corporation
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