Re: Strange mail with number in subject line and body

[Jesse Gough <jgough () securityfocus com>]

So, Jason Miller and I did some more digging and we have confirmed this 
is a new Tooso/Beagle variant released a few days ago. It appears to be 
retrieving lists of email addresses and spamming them, and if the spam 
attempt does not result in an SMTP error, it will save the address to a 
"known-good" list and eventually upload that to a remote location. The 
numbers in the subject and body are randomly selected from a small 
hardcoded list (2 choices for the subject, 5 for the body). Nothing to 
indicate the significance of the specific numbers chosen, however.

-JG

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