Discovered on: March 10, 2004
Last Updated on: March 10, 2004 03:26:18 PM
W32.Netsky.M@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the email addresses it finds when scanning hard drives and mapped drives.
The "sender" of the email is spoofed, and its subject, message body, and attachment vary. The attachment has a .pif extension.
This threat is compressed with UPX.
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Notes:
Symantec Consumer products that support the Worm Blocking functionality automatically detect this threat as it attempts to spread.
The worm has an MD5 hash value of 0xC32DB5E91758E38CD8A46ACC85109CF2.
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Type: Worm
When W32.Netsky.K@mm runs, it does the following:
Creates a mutex named "Rabbo_Mutex". This mutex allows only one instance of the worm to execute.
Copies itself as %Windir%\AVprotect9x.exe
Adds the value:
"9xHtProtect"="%Windir%\AVprotect9x.exe"
to the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
so that the worm runs when you start Windows.
Read more: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.netsky.m@mm.html

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