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W32/Bagle-CZ

Aliases
  • Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.ex
  • W32/Bagle.gen
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 21 February 2006 14:43:05 (GMT)
Last updated 22 February 2006 10:00:52 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When first run W32/Bagle-CZ copies itself to <System>\wind2ll2.exe.

W32/Bagle-CZ sends itself as an email attachment. This attachment may be in the form of a password-protected zip file, for which it includes the password in the message text.

W32/Bagle-CZ includes functionality to download files from the internet and store them to the location <System>\re_file.exe.

Emails sent by W32/Bagle-CZ have the following characteristics:

Subject line: <Blank>

Message text chosen from:

'New Year's'
'New Year's Day.'
'Happy New Year'
'We congratulate happy New Year'
'The password is <image>'
'Password: <image>'

W32/Bagle-CZ will avoid sending emails to addresses containing any of the following strings:

@derewrdgrs
@eerswqe
@messagelab
@microsoft
anyone@
certific
contract@
f-secur
free-av
gold-certs@
google
icrosoft
listserv
nobody@
noone@
noreply
postmaster@
rating@
samples
support
update
winrar
winzip

W32/Bagle-CZ creates the following registry entries to run itself on startup :

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ru1n
<random string>
<System>\windll2.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ru1n
<random string>
<System>\windll2.exe

W32/Bagle-CZ terminates the following processes:

1t1epad.exe
t1es1t.exe

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