Worm Duload
Kaspersky Labs reports the detection of the network worm Duload, which is spreading across the KaZaA file-exchange network. Presently Kaspersky Labs has already received several registered instances of infection in Italy.
The worm itself is a Windows (PE EXE) application written in Visual Basic. Currently two modifications of the Duload worm are known, each having a different file size:
Worm.P2P.Duload.a - 18432 bytes
Worm.P2P.Duload.b - 7680 bytes (Compressed
with the UPX utility)
If the infected attachment is accidentally opened "Duload" copies
itself to the Windows system directory under the name "SystemConfig.exe"
and modifies the system registry so that this file automatically loads
each time Windows is started.
Next, the Duload worm creates a folder in the Windows directory called
"Media" and copies itself to this directory under 39 different names. Such
as:
Pamela Anderson And Tommy Lee Home Video.exe
Alicia Silverstone Payboy Nude.exe
Kama Sutra Tetris.exe
Soldier Of Fortune 2 Mutiplayer Serial Hack.exe
The Sims Game Crack.exe
Warcraft 3 Battle.net Crack.exe
"Duload" then once again modifies the system registry in order to
make the "Media" folder accessible to all other KaZaA network users.
One modification of the worm (Worm.P2P.Duload.a) also downloads from
an Internet site several Trojan programs designed to establish the unauthorized
remote management of victim computers.
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