"Robert D. Hughes" wrote:

> First of all, here's the headers:
<<snip>>
> Now, they've obviously taken an actual MS bulleting and used the text, right
> down including a pgp key and they've incremented it from the previous
> bulletin. The first thing I noticed is that the entire message is
> double-spaced. Not a lot, but it was different from every other bulletin I've
> gotten. The obvious give away is the address they've used to for the fix, as
> well specifying a particular file to download. The bulletin page of course is
> 404.

Apart from the double-spacing and the 404 error on the non-existant
security bulletin, this same trick was used a few days (week?) ago
to advertise/distribute a (then) new Win32/Leave variant (that worm
that spreads via SubSeven machines that the NIPC were so worked up
about a couple of weeks back).

> The netblock is owned by LYCOS in Europe and points to a tripod page, with an
> att.net account used to send the mail, and relevant parties have been cc'ed
> as well. And apparently the user name associated with the site is hicagogppr.
>
> From my limited experience, I can tell very little about the file other than
> it appears to connect to a remote web site. This comes from running strings
> against the file. It also appears to go after napster and icq accounts, but I
> can't tell what else it does. I think the most important thing is that
> scanning it with the latest virus signatures from Norton comes up clean, so a
> user would not be notified that they are running an infected file.
>
> If someone with the knowledge and experience will, please do a full analysis
> on this and let me know what it is. I'm pretty much a rank newbie at this, as
> you can probably tell ;) I searched the bugtraq archives, but didn't find
> anything on this, so if its known, I apologize.
<<snip>>

Sounds like a new Leave variant. Please send a copy to your
preferred antivirus vendor. To possibly save you the search time,
the sample submission addresses of the better-known developers are:

   Command Software <viruscommandcom.com>
   Computer Associates (US) <viruscai.com>
   Computer Associates (Vet/IPE) <ipevirusvet.com.au>
   DialogueScience (Dr.Web) <Antivirdials.ru>
   Eset (NOD32) <trnkaeset.sk>
   F-Secure Corp. <samplesf-secure.com>
   Frisk Software <viruslabcomplex.is>
   Kaspersky Labs <newvirusavp.ru>
   Network Associates (US) <virus_researchnai.com>
   Norman (NVC) <analysisnorman.no>
   Sophos Plc. <supportsophos.com>
   Symantec <avsubmitsymantec.com>
   Trend Micro <virus_doctortrendmicro.com>

-- 
Nick FitzGerald
Computer Virus Consulting Ltd.
Ph/FAX: +64 3 3529854

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