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W32/Nachi-B

Aliases
  • W32/Welchia.B.Worm
  • Welchi.B
  • W32/Nachi.B
  • W32/Nachi.worm.b
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Included in our products from April 2004 (3.80)
Protection available since 12 February 2004 03:53:20 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Nachi-B is a worm that attempts to remove files associated with the W32/MyDoom-A and W32/MyDoom-B worms.

W32/Nachi-B spreads by exploiting the following Microsoft vulnerabilities:

- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) vulnerability

Microsoft issued a patch for the vulnerability exploited by this worm on July 16, 2003. The patch is available from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp. MS03-026 has been superseded by Microsoft security bulletin MS03-039.

- WebDAV vulnerability and IIS5/WEBDAV Buffer Overrun vulnerability

Microsoft issued a patch for the vulnerability exploited by this worm on March 17, 2003. The patch is available from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-007.asp.

When run the worm copies itself to the subfolder drivers located in the Windows system folder using the filename svchost.exe. The worm also tries to download and execute some of the following Microsoft patches:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/d/3/4d375d48-04c7-411f-959b-
3467c5ef1e9a/WindowsXP-KB828035-x86-CHS.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/4/3/a43ea017-9abd-4d28-a736-
2c17dd4d7e59/WindowsXP-KB828035-x86-KOR.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/a/e/eaea4109-0870-4dd3-88e0-
a34035dc181a/WindowsXP-KB828035-x86-ENU.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c579720-63e9-478a-bdcb-
70087ccad56c/Windows2000-KB828749-x86-CHS.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/8/4/084be8b7-e000-4847-979c-
c26de0929513/Windows2000-KB828749-x86-KOR.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/c/6/3c6d56ff-ff8e-4322-84cb-
3bf9a915e6d9/Windows2000-KB828749-x86-ENU.exe

W32/Nachi-B checks every twenty minutes for a live internet connection by attempting to connect to either microsoft.com, intel.com or google.com and will attempt to infect random IP addresses if the connection was successful.

W32/Nachi-B will uninstall itself from June 2004.

W32/Nachi-B may overwrite files with extensions SHTML, SHTM, STM, CGI, PHP, HTML, HTM and ASP with an HTML file containing the following text:

LET HISTORY TELL FUTURE !

1931.9.18
1937.7.7
1937.12.13 300,000 !

1941.12.7
1945.8.6 Little boy
1945.8.9 Fatso

1945.8.15

Let history tell future !

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