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Classification

Category:Malware
Type:Worm
Aliases:

Jean, Santa, I-Worm.Santa, Xmas

Summary

Jean is a mass mailer (worm) written in Visual Basic Script.

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Technical Details

Variant:Jean.A@mm

Jean.A spreads to first 50 recipients written in MS Outlook address book. The message that this worm sends looks as follows:

 Subject: "News vom Weihnachtsmann " [user's name] Body: Guten Tag, es ist bald Weihnachten. Und wie sieht's aus mit schonen Geschenken ? Hierzu ein Tip vom Weihnachtsmann: Unter www.leos-jeans.de gibt es die besten Geschenke im Web ! Das bedeutet absolut stressfreies Einkaufen, schnelle und unkomplizierte Lieferung, riesige Auswahl. Also nichts wie hin, und Frohe Weihnachten. Attachment: [the infected script file] 

Jean.A was found in the wild in Germany on 24 of November 2000.

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