F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Sober.X
[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.X |
| ALIAS: | Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.x, W32/Sober.X@mm |
The Sober.X 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.x'.
This Sober variant sends a bit different e-mail messages:
Subject:
Wichtig: Meine neue Mail Adresse!
Body:
hi du,,, ike bin et
Musste mir leider ne neue Mail-Addy machen. Meine alte wird
nur noch zu gemuellt mit Spam.
Habe dir auch gleich die Datei mitgeliefert die du immer
haben wolltest. Ist aber ziemlich per....
Ok, man sieht sich
Attachment name starts with:
Mail-Datei
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Subject:
Your eMail Password
Body:
Thanks for your registration! Your registration will not be
complete until you re-confirm it. Please read the following
agreement. If you accept it, click the Accept to complete
your registration!
Attachment:
Accept_e-Text.zip
Sober.X worm is detected with the following F-Secure Anti-Virus
updates:
Version=2005-11-15_04
Writeup:
Alexey Podrezov; November 15th, 2005;
F-Secure Corporation
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