03/29/04 - W32/Cone.f@MM

This is a mass mailing worm that attempts to bring down the www.irna.com website.

Emailing Component
The worm sends itself out as a base64 encoded attachment, contains the following information:

From: (spoofed name, may contain the following)

antivirus
management
admininstration
virus-detection
AV
support
staff
Subject: (one of the following)

your help file attached
W32.Mydoom.H in your mail
Your computer is probably infected by W32.Mydoom.H
Norton Antivirus detected W32.Mydoom.H in your mail
Large amount of W32.Mydoom.H outgoing from your email
Virus detected in your mail
Your computer is infected by W32.Mydoom.H
Your computer is probably infected
Your message was infected by Mydoom
I found a virus in your message
I recieved a message from you containing Mydoom
Mydoom.H in attachment of your message

Body (one of the following:

your help file attached
Hi, The attachment is a virus. I write it to say: we don't want Islamic Republic in IRAN! I'm realy realy sorry, I'm damaging the computers that I don't want to damage!!!! I choose to help a nation to be free with cost of some computer infections!!! Do you choose this if you must choose one? all of the other ways closed, no one listen to us!!!! please support me, open the virus and let it spread, it does not have any damage, just your internet connection may become some slow! for more info search "W32.Cone.E".
Dear users of %domain% ,
Our antivirus software has detected a large amount of viruses outgoing from your email account (%email address% ), you may use our removal instruction to clean up your computer software.
Dear users of %domain% ,
Norton Antivirus has detected about %random number% e-mail(s) infected by W32.Mydoom.H outgoing from your mail account(%email address% ). W32.Mydoom.H is a category 4 virus and Norton Antivirus 2004 is updated automatically for removal instructions of cat 4 and 5 viruses, and then send them for infected computers to prevent more infections. your computer is infected by mydoom.H, because i recieved more than 20 messages containing mydoom.H from you i attached help file of removal instructions of this virus, please cleanup your computer, before connecting to internet!
hey, i'm tired of deleting emails infected by Mydoom.H from you, i attached the symantec removal instructions help file for Mydoom.H please cleanup your computer, or do not connect to internet.
Cleanup your computer, i have recieved more than 20 message infected by Mydoom.H from you, i attached the symantec removal instructions help file for W32.Mydoom.H
hi, i have recieved an email from you infected by W32.Mydoom.H, the attached file is a help file (.chm) containing removal instructions of Mydoom.H, i have downloaded it from www.symantec.com. to check to see if your computer has been infected by Mydoom.H refer to "Check for presence of W32.Mydoom.H" in the help file.
best wishes,
----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:53 AM
> Details are in the attached document.
>
----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:53 AM
> Details are in the attached document.
>
The attached file is a help file containing the removal instruction of W32.Mydoom.H. (This is an automatic virus detection mail created by Symantec Norton Antivirus 2004 for more info about Norton Antivirus 2004 visit www.symantec.com) Norton Antivirus 2004 Enterprise Edition

Attachment (varies and may be in *.zip archive file):

pchealth.exe
%random name% .chm
Kazaa Propagation
The worm retrieves the location of the download directory of Kazaa from the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Kazaa\LocalContent "DownloadDir"
It then copies itself to /Recieved folder using the following filenames:

Hacking Exposed Network Security Secrets-chapt%number% .chm
401 guitar tabs.chm
How_to_crack_Win_XP_activation.chm
Credit card numbers.chm
adult check passwords.chm
(ebook chm) Teach Yourself C++ In 14 Days.chm
eBook-OReilly-Learning the UNIX Operating System.chm
Hacker's Guide.chm

More info on this worm:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101141.htm

Removal Instructions

Go to the following website for removal instructions:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101141.htm

Download Stinger to Scan for infection:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger