Sophos

W32/Dref-AM

Aliases
  • Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.gr
  • W32/Nuwar@MM
  • WORM_NUWAR.APN
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Protection available since 11 August 2007 16:40:49 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Dref-AM is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Dref-AM sends itself to the email addresses harvested from the infected computer.

When first run W32/Dref-AN copies itself to <Windows>\spooldr.exe and creates the following files:

<System>\spooldr.sys.
<System>\drivers\tcpip.sys
            
These files are detected as Troj/Dorf-M.

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