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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 21 April 2006 17:26:06 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 28 April 2006 10:18:55 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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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
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<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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