W32/Baba-A

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Win32 worm
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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W32/Baba-A is a mass-mailing worm. W32/Baba-A is a mass-mailing worm.

When run the worm attempts to create a helper component csrss.exe in the C:\ folder and executes it. The helper component then creates the following registry entry so as to auto-start on user logon:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Key Logger = c:\csrss.exe

W32/Baba-A will attempt to harvest email addresses from files on the infected computer with the following extensions:

DBX WAB MBX EML MDB TBB NBOX DAT

Sent emails are composed as HTML and take the following form:

Subject:

Mail Delivery failure - <harvested name>

Mail body:

If the message will not displayed automatically,
you can check original in attached message.txt

Failed message also saved at:
www.<host>/inbox/security/read.asp?sessionid-<random number>
(check attached instructions)

+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ MC-Afee AntiVirus - www.mcafee.com

W32/Baba-A contains the text "SoonChunHyang" and "Bucheon".

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