Win32.Worm.VBS.J
SYMPTOMS: - presence of the file pagefiles.sys inside root directory of every drive - presence of autorun.inf inside root directory of drives, pointing to the file described above - presence of the file %windir%\win.exe - presence of the file %system%\regedit.sys - strange system behaviour (applications that simply refuze to run) - computer slowdowns TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: This is a VBS (Visual Basic Script) that comes encrypted with a trivial algorithm: for i = 1 to len(vbss) DVBS = DVBS & Chr(Asc(Mid(vbss, i, 1)) - 1) The only purpose of the raw script is to decrypt its rest of the body and execute it. After decryption, the script will perform the following actions: - modify DisplayLogo and Timeout settings of the Windows Script Host - add the following registry keys: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\Scan for virus,s\command\ with the value %windir%\system32\wscript.exe /E:vbs "%windir%\system32\regedit.sys" HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\Open application\command\ with the value %windir%\win.exe where %windows%\system32\regedit.sys is a copy of the worm. By adding these keys, it actually adds 2 new options to the explorer's contextual menu: "Scan for virus,s" and "Open applications". By right-clicking an exe-file and selecting one of these options, a user would actually run the worm (%system%\regedit.sys) or win.exe (which will be discused later). - will add several entries of the following type: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\!HIJACKED_APP!\Debugger with value: %windir%\system32\wscript.exe /E:vbs "%windir%\system32\regedit.sys" where !HIJACKED_APP! will be the following applications: drwtsn32.exe, taskmgr.exe, regedit.exe, rstrui.exe and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\!HIJACKED_APP!\Debugger with value %windir%\win.exe where !HIAJCKED_APP! will contain security-software applications, screen-savers and other commercial applications (182 entries). This way, anytime one of these programs would be ran, the malicious script (%system%\regedit.sys) or %windir%\win.exe would get executed instead. - remove the following registry entries: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\lnternet HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\winboot HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MS32DLL HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MessengerPlus - create autorun.inf file on every accesible drive (in order to be executed anytime one of those drives is accesed) - open in Explorer.exe the path where the original worm-file is located (the directory it was executed in) - drop and execute in %windir% another file: win.exe, which is a Backdoor and is already detected by BitDefender - modify the registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit setting its value to %windir%\system32\userinit.exe,wscript.exe /E:vbs %windir%\system32\regedit.sys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\CTFMON setting its value to %windir%\win.exe HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Script Host\Settings\Enabled, by setting its value to 1 and making sure that scripting is not disabled. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL\CheckedValue by setting its value to 0 and making sure that hidden files and folders won't be displayed by Explorer HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\SuperHidden, by setting its value to 1 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\ShowSuperHidden by setting its value to 0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\HideFileExt by setting its value to 1, in order to make file extensions invisible under Explorer HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Hidden, by setting its value to 0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun by setting its value to 0, in order to activate autorun on every drive Note: %windir% is a variable that refers to the Windows directory (usually C:\Windows) %system% is a variable that refers to the system folder (usually C:\Windows\System32)
Removal instructions: Please let BitDefender disinfect your files.ANALYZED BY: Lutas Andrei Vlad, virus researcher |