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Cervivec

Classification

Category:

Malware

Type:

Worm

Aliases:

  • Cervivec
  • I-Worm/Cervivec

Summary

Cervivec is a mass-mailer worm written in Delphi. The code body is over 600 kilobytes in size. It collects email addresses from the user's ICQ contact database.

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Technical Details

The worm installs itself to the Windows System directory as "ntkrnl.exe" and adds a value to the registry to

"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Kernel Loader"

to make sure that it will be started when the machine starts up.

It sends email messages in different languages:

"Cau posilam ti cerviky tak se na to podivej (virus to neni)" "Cau posielam ti cerviky tak sa na to pozri (virus to neni)" "Hallo, Ich habe ein guter Witz-Wurm so sieh! (kein virus)" "Hi, I have some cool joke - worms so have a look at it (no virus)" "J'ai une bonne blague ca s'appelle verre de terre alors jette un coup d'oeil (il n'y a pas de virusi)" "Czesc, mam swietnz dowci te mando los gusanilloes. Pues mirarlos (no es un virus)" "Hola te mando los gusanilloes. Puesmirarlos (no es un virus)"

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