W32/Bagle-GT

Category: Viruses and Spyware Protection available since:21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 (GMT)
Type: Win32 worm Last Updated:21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 (GMT)
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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W32/Bagle-GT is a mass-mailing worm for the Windows platform.

Messages sent by the worm will have the following characteristics:

The message text and subject both consist of non-latin characters. The attachment name also consist of non-latin characters, with a file extension of .hta.

W32/Bagle-GT includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP. W32/Bagle-GT is a mass-mailing worm for the Windows platform.

Messages sent by the worm will have the following characteristics:

The message text and subject both consist of non-latin characters. The attachment name also consist of non-latin characters, with a file extension of .hta.

When run, this attachment, detected as W32/Bagle-GT, drops and runs a file also detected as W32/Bagle-GT.

When this file is run it copies itself to <Windows>\csrss.exe.

The following registry entry is changed to run W32/Bagle-GT on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe
Debugger
<Windows>\csrss.exe

W32/Bagle-GT then creates the file <Temp>\Message.hta which is a new dropper that will be mailed to email addresses found on the infected computer. This file is also detected as W32/Bagle-GT.

W32/Bagle-GT includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

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