W32/Axam-A is an email and peer-to-peer worm. The worm arrives in an email with the following characteristics:
Subject line - randomly chosen from the following list:
Are you a Bussiness man?
Care to trade world map?
DAA Holding have an Idea for Bussiness man
Do you have an enough salaries for you job?
Don't missed Logon to DAABussiness.com
Don't waste you money!
Good Idea For ya!
Great Job for Professional Programmer
Hello man!
Hey, how are you?
Hi! ;)
How to make a money in one day?
How to prevent from Pirate CD!
HOW TO PREVENT YOUR EMAIL FROM VIRUSES?
IMPORTANT DISCUSSION!
Job for you!
NICE TO MEET YOU!
No More Blood!
Trade and Care about customer!
Who's should be attacked first?
Message text:
Hello Mr/Mrs/Sir/Mdm,
I have an Idea for you, This will make your business more efficient. To download this important tips just click here or you can downloaded the files from an attachment.
Regard,
Alexander Joshia
Executive Manager of DAA Holding
Attached file: Will have the name of the executable that sent the email.
The worm may also be found in the following folders commonly shared by popular peer-to-peer networking software:
C:\Program Files\KMD\My Shared Folder\Axam.exe
C:\Program Files\Kazaa\My Shared Folder\Invisible_man.exe
C:\Program Files\KaZaA Lite\My Shared Folder\AjeedNASA.exe
C:\Program Files\Morpheus\My Shared Folder\Blaster.exe
C:\Program Files\Grokster\My Grokster\XXX_HOTSEX.exe
C:\Program Files\BearShare\Shared\fxbgbear.exe
C:\Program Files\Edonkey2000\Incoming\setup_flash.exe
C:\Program Files\limewire\Shared\Super Mario.exe
As well as the above locations the worm will also be copied to the Windows startup folder and C:\Windows\Application Data\.
The following registry entry will be created to run the worm when Windows starts up:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\sysaxam32
A new file type named spitmaxa will be created via the registry entry HKCR\Spitmaxa and the registry entry HKCR\.exe will be modified so that EXE files will be run as the file type spitmaxa. This will cause the worm to be run whenever the infected user attempts to run an EXE file.
When run, W32/Axam-A will display a message box containing the text
"PreSeNt Axam Spitmaxa W0rM
-=< GReeTz to AsEaN HacKeRs GrOuP >=-
> MelHacKer
> InVisible_man
> AjeedNASA
> Zied666
> Foot-Art
> PakBrain
aNd All mY fRieNd iN thE WorLd...
Melhacker, Inc. (c) Copyright 1995-2003. All Right Reserved."
On the second of the month a message box will be displayed containing the text "Apa yang membuatkan seseorang itu lalai? Jawapannya ada pada anda sendiri. Dengarlah nasihat dari Axam Virus ini."
The virus author Melhacker claims to be based in Malaysia and the text displayed in the message box above is written in the Malay language. Translated it reads "What makes a person careless? The answer is in yourself. Listen to the advice of the Axam Virus".
W32/Axam-A will attempt to close down any of the following processes:
_Avp32.exe
_Avpcc.exe
_Avpm.exe
Ackwin32.exe
Anti-Trojan.exe
Apvxdwin.exe
Autodown.exe
Avconsol.exe
Ave32.exe
Avgctrl.exe
Avkserv.exe
Avnt.exe
Avp.exe
Avp32.exe
Avpcc.exe
Avpdos32.exe
Avpm.exe
Avptc32.exe
Avpupd.exe
Avwupd32.exe
Blackd.exe
Blackice.exe
ccApp.exe
Cfiadmin.exe
Cfiaudit.exe
Cfinet.exe
Cfinet32.exe
Claw95.exe
Claw95cf.exe
Cleaner.exe
Cleaner3.exe
Cmd.exe
Command.com
Dvp95.exe
Dvp95_0.exe
Ecengine.exe
Esafe.exe
Espwatch.exe
F-Agnt95.exe
Findviru.exe
Fprot.exe
F-Prot.exe
F-Prot95.exe
Fp-Win.exe
Frw.exe
F-Stopw.exe
HH.exe
Iamapp.exe
Iamserv.exe
Ibmasn.exe
Ibmavsp.exe
Icload95.exe
Icloadnt.exe
Icmon.exe
Icsupp95.exe
Icsuppnt.exe
Iface.exe
Iomon98.exe
Jedi.exe
Lockdown2000.exe
Lookout.exe
Luall.exe
Moolive.exe
Mpftray.exe
N32scanw.exe
Navlu32.exe
Navnt.exe
Navw32.exe
Navwnt.exe
Nisum.exe
Nmain.exe
Normist.exe
Nupgrade.exe
Nvc95.exe
Outpost.exe
Padmin.exe
Pavcl.exe
Pavsched.exe
Pavw.exe
Pccwin98.exe
Pcfwallicon.exe
Persfw.exe
Rav7.exe
Rav7win.exe
Regedit.com
Regedit.exe
Rescue.exe
Safeweb.exe
Scan32.exe
Scan95.exe
Scanpm.exe
Scrscan.exe
Serv95.exe
Smc.exe
Sphinx.exe
Sweep95.exe
Tbscan.exe
Tca.exe
Tds2-98.exe
Tds2-Nt.exe
VControl.exe
Vet95.exe
Vettray.exe
Vscan40.exe
Vsecomr.exe
Vshwin32.exe
Vsstat.exe
Webscanx.exe
Wfindv32.exe
Zonealarm.exe
The file Autoexec.bat will be modified to display "...-= AxAm WOrm PreSenT =-..." when executed.
W32/Axam-A contains functionality that is intended to delete a large number of files and format drives C: and D:, but this will never work.