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W32/Stration-X

Aliases
  • W32/Station@MM
  • Win32/Stration
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 11 September 2006 20:25:53 (GMT)
Last updated 18 September 2006 19:21:45 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Stration-X is a mass-mailing worm for the Windows platform.

Mails sent by the worm have the following characteristics:

Subject line: chosen from a list including
Mail server report.
Mail Transaction Failed
Error
Status
hello.

Message text: chosen from a list including

The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.

Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available. W32/Stration-X is a mass-mailing worm for the Windows platform.

Mails sent by the worm have the following characteristics:

Subject line: one of
Mail server report.
Mail Transaction Failed
Error
Status
hello.
Good day

Message text: one of

Mail server report.
Our fireweall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being sent from your computer.
Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus type (Network Worms).
Using the new bug in Windows, these viruses infect the computer unnoticeably.
After penetrating into the computer the virus harvest all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail addresses
Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer restoring.
Best regards,
Customers support service

The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.

Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.

W32/Stration-X includes functionality to download, install and run new software.

When first run W32/Stration-X copies itself to <Windows folder>\tsrv.exe and creates
the following files:

<Windows system folder>\<random>.dll
<Windows system folder>\<random>.exe
<Windows system folder>\<random>.dll
<Windows folder>\tsrv.dll

These four files are also detected as W32/Stration-X.

The following registry entries are created to run tsrv.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
tsrv
<Windows folder>\tsrv.exe s

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\
AppInit_DLLs
<path to one of the randomly-named DLLs>

When first run, W32/Stration-X displays the following message:

Title: Information
Message: Update successfully installed.

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