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W32/Stratio-E

Aliases
  • Win32/Stration.XJ
  • worm
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from September 2007 (4.21)
Protection available since 8 August 2007 00:48:38 (GMT)
Cleanup available since August 2007
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information


W32/Stratio-E is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Stratio-E spreads by sending emails with itself as an attachment. W32/Stratio-E is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Stratio-E spreads by sending emails with itself as an attachment.

W32/Stratio-E includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When W32/Stratio-E is installed the following files are created:

<System>\consmsls.dll
<System>\dispregs.dll
<System>\icmuwmau.dat
<System>\icmuwmau.dll
<System>\icmuwmau.exe
<System>\vvrtusrf.exe

The files consmsls.dll, dispregs.dll, icmuwmau.dll and vvrtusrf.exe are detected as W32/Strati-Gen. The file icmuwmau.dat is harmless and can be deleted

The following registry entries are created to run code exported by icmuwmau.dll on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\icmuwmau
DllName
<System>\icmuwmau.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\icmuwmau
Startup
WlxStartupEvent

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\icmuwmau
Impersonate
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