Submission Summary:

What's been foundSeverity Level
Threat characteristics of Vundo (aka VirtuMonde/VirtuMundo), a trojan horse that cause popups and advertises rogue antispyware programs. Vundo can be installed by visiting a Web site link contained in a spammed email. It is known to create a DLL file in the Windows system32 directory and inject it into system processes winlogon.exe and explorer.exe.
Registers a Winlogon notification package so that the installed module is loaded into the address space of winlogon.exe.
Registers a 32-bit in-process server DLL.
Contains characteristics of an identified security risk.

 

Technical Details:

 

Possible Security Risk

Security RiskDescription
Trojan.Virtumonde Virtumonde modifies the Windows Internet connection mechanism and display various pop-up advertisements.

Threat CategoryDescription
A malicious trojan horse or bot that may represent security risk for the compromised system and/or its network environment
A malicious backdoor trojan that runs in the background and allows remote access to the compromised system

 

File System Modifications

#Filename(s)File SizeFile HashAlias
1 %Temp%\iifdefdE.bat 95 bytes MD5: 0xAE9DC0ED2F90ABB47EB362C7BB41C6E5
SHA-1: 0x2C1A92D9167E86D2DCA20DF5BED7A22D84ABE135
(not available)
2 %System%\fccaYsrO.dll 36,352 bytes MD5: 0x757CA731886C42A0C9FFA338E354D0F1
SHA-1: 0x6D39E0B7E39FE943176A26A8EFE176573F068239
Packed.Generic.202 [Symantec]
Trojan.Win32.Monderb.asqi [Kaspersky Lab]
Troj/Virtum-Gen [Sophos]
Win-Trojan/Monderb.36352.AO [AhnLab]
3 [file and pathname of the sample #1] 181,225 bytes MD5: 0x048A766A519106198071640BDB0FFE3C
SHA-1: 0x8332F28EC428AFF307465E81599F0D220C822110
Backdoor.Win32.ProRat.egc [Kaspersky Lab]
Mal/Generic-A [Sophos]
Win-Trojan/Prorat.181225 [AhnLab]

 

Memory Modifications

Process NameProcess FilenameMain Module Size
[filename of the sample #1][file and pathname of the sample #1]143,360 bytes

Module NameModule FilenameAddress Space Details
fccaYsrO.dll%System%\fccaYsrO.dllProcess name: explorer.exe
Process filename: %Windir%\explorer.exe
Address space: 0x1E80000 - 0x1E98000

 

Registry Modifications

 

 

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