McAfee AVERT Raises Risk Assessment to Medium Based on
Increased Prevalence
BEAVERTON, Ore., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc.
(NYSE:MFE) , the pioneer and worldwide leader of intrusion
prevention
solutions, today announced that
McAfee(R) AVERT(TM) (Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency
Response Team), the world-class research division of McAfee, Inc.,
raised the risk assessment to Medium on the recently discovered
W32/Bropia.worm.p worm, also known as Bropia.worm.p.
This new worm variant propagates through MSN messenger. However,
unlike previous variants it does not drop the W32/Sdbot.worm.gen
worm. Over the last few hours, McAfee AVERT has received more than
30 reports of the virus being stopped or infecting users from the
field.
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Thinkpad This variant of the Bropia.worm is similar to previous variants
and propagates through MSN Messenger. In order to get infected, the
user would need to manually run the attachment. Upon executing, the
work tries to display an image from
"http://www.[blocked].com/lol_f***_you_lol/l0l_53xy_l0l.jpg." A web
counter on the page is incremented each time it is accessed.
However, at the time of writing, the image is unavailable.
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Laptop Computers After being executed, the worm drops a copy of itself into the
C:\ directory using any of the following filenames:
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-- c:\John Kerry as Super Chicken.scr
-- c:\Kool.pif
-- c:\Me & you pic!.pif
-- c:\Me P***ed!.pif
-- c:\sexy.pif
-- c:\She Could Fit her A** in a Teacup.pif
-- c:\she's f***in fit.pif
-- c:\titanic2.jpg.pif
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Desktop Computer (* replaces text)
Notebooks
A copy of the worm is dropped in %SysDir% as Isass.exe , where
%SysDir% is either
C:\Windows\System32 or
C:\WinNT\System32.
Lenovo The following registry key is hooked to run the worm at
startup:
Hard Drive -- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\Run "Isass" = %SysDir% \Isass.exe
Travelstar --
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
"Isass" = %SysDir% \Isass.exe
Gateway -- The worm creates a mutex object on the infected machine using
the name: .:*-F*k-U-*:.
Laptop Parts The following processes are disabled on the victim's machine to
prevent the user from manually stopping and removing the worm:
Software -- Regedit.exe - registry editor
-- Mstask.exe - task manager
-- Msconfig.exe - configuration manager
Hard Drives
More information on Bropia.worm.p and cure for this worm can be
found online at the McAfee AVERT site located at
http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_131862.htm . McAfee
AVERT is advising its customers to update to the 4430 DATs to stay
protected from this threat.
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vulnerability research organizations in the world, employing
researchers in thirteen countries on five continents. McAfee AVERT
combines world-class malicious code and anti-virus research with
intrusion prevention and vulnerability research expertise from the
McAfee(R) IntruShield(R), McAfee(R) Entercept(R) and McAfee(R)
Foundstone(R) Professional Services organizations. McAfee AVERT
protects customers by providing cures that are developed through
the combined efforts of McAfee AVERT researchers and McAfee AVERT
AutoImmune technology, which applies advanced heuristics, generic
detection, and ActiveDAT technology to generate cures for
previously undiscovered viruses.
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