Sophos

W32/Kangaroo-B

Aliases
  • Virus.Win32.VB.i
  • Trojan.Kangenie
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 10 October 2005 10:10:42 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

W32/Kangaroo-B is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Kangaroo-B monitors windows, looking for ones with title bars containing text in the format (<drive letter>:) and attempts to copy itself to these drives with the filename kangen.exe. W32/Kangaroo-B is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/Kangaroo-B copies itself to:

<System>\ccApps.exe
<System>\winlog

The following registry entry is created to run winword.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ccApps
<System>\ccApps.exe

The following registry entries may be set, disabling the registry editor (regedit) and the Windows task manager (taskmgr):

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DisableRegistryTools
1

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DisableTaskMgr
1

W32/Kangaroo-B repeatedly copies itself and sets these registry entries.

W32/Kangaroo-B monitors windows, looking for ones with title bars containing text in the format (<drive letter>:) and attempts to copy itself to these drives with the filename kangen.exe.

If opened with a filename of "kangen", W32/Kangaroo-B will drop and open the file kangen.doc to the Windows system folder which contains the lyrics to a pop song in Indonesian in an html-formatted document.

W32/Kangaroo-B may set the following registry entry to prevent certain files from running on system startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
LoadService =
"Rest In Peace"

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