W32/Mytob.Z Worm

 Information about the W32/Mytob.Z Worm:

W32/Mytob.Z is a mass mailing worm. This worm is a variant of W32/Mytob.A. The worm will infect Windows systems and spreads through email.

The infected mail 'From' address prefix will be any one of the following;

adam, alex, andrew, anna, bill, bob, brenda, brent, brian, britney, bush, claudia, dan, dave, david, debby, fred, george, helen, jack, james, jane, jerry, jim, jimmy, joe, john, jose, julie, kevin, leo, linda, lolita, madmax, maria, mary, matt, michael, mike, peter, ray, robert, sam, sandra, serg, smith, stan, steve, ted, to.

the suffix after '@' character will be any one of the following domains;

hotmail.com
cia.gov
fbi.gov
yahoo.com
juno.com
msn.com
aol.com

The subject of the infected mail will be any one of the following;

Good day
hello
status
test
Mail Transaction Failed
error
SERVER REPORT
Mail Delivery System

The infected attachment will be any one of the following;

message
document
doc
test
text
readme

The extension of the infected attachment will be single or double, The first extension can be any one of these;

doc, txt, htm.

The second extension can be any one of these;

cmd, bat, pif, scr, zip, exe.

The body of the infected mail will be any one of the following;

The original message was included as an attachment.

Here are your banks documents.

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.

Upon execution of the infected attachment, the worm copies itself as;

taskgamr.exe and win32.exe in the Windows System folder.
see_this!!.scr, my_photo2005.scr and funny_pic.scr in the root of C: drive

The worm modifies registry at the following location to load itself during each startup.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

To propagate itself, the worm scans the files having the following extensions and collects all the available email addresses from the infected system.

adb, asp, dbx, htm, php, pl, sht, tbb, wab.

It also collects email addresses from the Temporary Internet Files folder.

The worm mails itself to these addresses using its own SMTP engine.

This worm first appeared on 9th April, 2005.

 Other names of W32/Mytob.Z Worm:

This Worm is also known as WORM_MYTOB.BG, W32.Mytob.AF@mm, W32/Mytob-AX, Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.z.