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W32/Bagle-QS

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 30 November 2006 23:10:26 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Bagle-QS is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Bagle-QS emails itself in an encrypted zip file to addresses found on the user's computer.

Emails sent by the worm have the following characteristics:

Subject line chosen from:
new <date>
price<date>
price_ <date>
price_new <date>

Message text chosen from:

It Is Protected
Passwrd:

thank you !!!
Passwrd:

New year's discounts
Passwrd:

The attached file is named:
new_price<date>.zip
price_list<date>.zip
latest_price<date>.zip

<date> is the date the email was sent in the following format 30-Nov-2006.

The zip file is detected as W32/Bagle-Zip. W32/Bagle-QS is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Bagle-QS emails itself in an encrypted zip file to addresses found on the user's computer.

Emails sent by the worm have the following characteristics:

Subject line chosen from:
new <date>
price<date>
price_ <date>
price_new <date>

Message text chosen from:

It Is Protected
Passwrd:

thank you !!!
Passwrd:

New year's discounts
Passwrd:

The attached file is named:
new_price<date>.zip
price_list<date>.zip
latest_price<date>.zip

<date> is the date the email was sent in the following format 30-Nov-2006.

The zip file is detected as W32/Bagle-Zip.

The zip file is password protected with a 6 digit password which is embedded in the email as an image.

When first run W32/Bagle-QS copies itself to:

<User>\Application Data\hidn\hidn2.exe
<User>\Application Data\hidn\hldrrr.exe

W32/Bagle-QS attempts to disable anti-virus and security software and contains functionality to download and run further software.

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