RE: Worm.SCO.A

["Shawn Jackson" <sjackson () horizonusa com>]

According to this (http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt) the worm
is supposed to die on Feb 12th 2004. A theory is that the DDoS attack
against SCO was just a plant, and not part of 'actual' operations on the
worm, i.e. to throw someone off while working on the worm. Its primary
function, besides spreading, seams to be the accepting a file transfer
on port 3127 then running it. Doesn't seam like a 'normal' spammer virii
tactic as some seam to be suggesting.

I haven't had time myself to pour through the assembly of the worm and
am going off the assembly provided in the document above. But they seam
to point out the bits and bytes pretty well.

        Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: jamesworld () intelligencia com [mailto:jamesworld () intelligencia com]

Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:23 PM
To: Shawn Jackson
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Worm.SCO.A

Same as MyDoom

Check www.pandasoftware.com  www.nai.com   etc....

Payload has already been decoded and report is at above sites.

-James


At 16:38 01/26/2004, you wrote:

>         Anyone else encountering this? I've just got hammered with a
few
> hundred of these in the last hour and a half and I can't quite discern
> what exactly the virii is. There doesn't seam to be a map from ClamAV
> virus naming format to any other. Anyone have a clue of what this virus
> is?
>
>         I looked at the quarantine, and it seamed to be just the virii
> payload and no content, file.pif.exe. I've also seen it as a file.zip,
> doc.zip, document.zip, document.pif, rhn.scr, data.zip, message.zip,
> test.zip. There could be more, but I just don't have the time to check
> the payload on all the messages.
>
> -------------------AMAVIS REPORT------------------
> A virus (Worm.SCO.A) was found.
>
> Two banned names (file.pif, .exe) were found.
>
> Scanner detecting a virus: Clam Antivirus-clamd
>
> The mail originated from: <ctccyc () aol com>
>
> According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at:
>    aol.com (unknown [12.9.171.xxx])
>
> The message WAS NOT delivered to:
> <xxx () horizonusa com>:
>    550 5.7.1 Message content rejected, id=28441-07 - VIRUS: Worm.SCO.A
>
> Virus scanner output:
>    /var/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20040126T141220-28441/parts/part-00002:
> Worm.SCO.A FOUND
>
> The message has been quarantined as:
>    /var/amavisd/quarantine/virus-20040126-141800-28441-07
>
> ------------------------- BEGIN HEADERS -----------------------------
> Return-Path: <xxxxx () aol com>
> Received: from aol.com (unknown [12.9.171.xxx])
>         by mta1.horizonusa.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA572D8106
>         for <ted () horizonusa com>; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:17:59 -0800
(PST)
> From: xxxx () aol com
> To: xxx () horizonusa com
> Subject:
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:17:47 -0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0010_465EEF13.4CF1817C"
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> Message-Id: <20040126221759.DFA572D8106 () mta1 horizonusa com>
> -------------------------- END HEADERS ------------------------------
>
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