Sophos

W32/Sober-U

Aliases
  • Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.u
  • WORM_SOBER.GEN
  • CME-157
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Included in our products from January 2006 (4.01)
Protection available since 14 November 2005 21:49:52 (GMT)
Last updated 24 November 2005 03:09:30 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Sober-U emails messages in German to addresses found in files on the hard disk. The Trojan searches for email addresses in files whose names contain the following strings:

pmr stm slk inbox imb csv bak imh xhtml imm imh cms nws vcf ctl dhtm cgi pp ppt
msg jsp oft vbs uin ldb abc pst cfg mdw mbx mdx mda adp nab fdb vap dsp ade sln
dsw mde frm bas adr cls ini ldif log mdb xml wsh tbb abx abd adb pl rtf mmf doc
ods nch xls nsf txt wab eml hlp mht nfo php asp shtml dbx

W32/Sober-U does not send mail to any address which contains the following strings:

@www @from. smtp- @smtp. gold-certs ftp. .dial. .ppp. anyone subscribe mantec
announce @gmetref sql. someone nothing you@ user@ reciver@ somebody secure
msdn. me@ whatever@ whoever@ anywhere yourname mustermann@ .kundenserver.
mailer-daemon variabel -dav law2 .sul.t- .qmail@ t-ipconnect t-dialin ipt.aol
time freeav @ca. abuse winrar domain. host. viren bitdefender spybot detection
icrosoft ewido. emsisoft @foo. winzip @example. bellcore. @arin mozilla @iana
@avp @msn @sophos @panda @kaspers free-av antivir virus verizon. @ikarus. @nai.
@messagelab nlpmail01. clock

W32/Sober-U creates the following empty files in the Windows system folder.

bbvmwxxf.hml
gdfjgthv.cvq
langeinf.lin
nonrunso.ber
rubezahl.rub
runstop.rst

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