Submission Summary:

• Submission details:
• Submission received: 19 January 2009, 10:44:55
• Processing time: 6 min 0 sec
• Submitted sample:
• File MD5: 0x0F6747FA51AB91CBEAE4F0CB966360A4
• File SHA-1: 0x917CB9D36964C14CFE20F5587893179B6EDC7CDB
• Filesize: 39,424 bytes
• Alias:
• Win32.Virut.Gen.5 [PCTools]
• W32.Virut.U [Symantec]
• Virus.Win32.Virut.n [Kaspersky Lab]
• W32/Virut.gen [McAfee]
• PE_VIRUT.XL [Trend Micro]
• W32/Vetor-A [Sophos]
• Virus:Win32/Virut.AF [Microsoft]
• Virus.Win32.Virut.o [Ikarus]

• Summary of the findings:

What's been found	Severity Level
Creates a startup registry entry.
Contains characteristics of an identified security risk.

Technical Details:

Possible Security Risk

• Attention! The following threat category was identified:

Threat Category	Description
	A virus capable to modify other files by infecting, prepending, or overwriting them them with its own body

File System Modifications

• The following file was created in the system:

#	Filename(s)	File Size	File Hash	Alias
1	%UserProfile%\reader_s.exe %System%\reader_s.exe [file and pathname of the sample #1]	39,424 bytes	MD5: 0x0F6747FA51AB91CBEAE4F0CB966360A4 SHA-1: 0x917CB9D36964C14CFE20F5587893179B6EDC7CDB	Win32.Virut.Gen.5 [PCTools] W32.Virut.U [Symantec] Virus.Win32.Virut.n [Kaspersky Lab] W32/Virut.gen [McAfee] PE_VIRUT.XL [Trend Micro] W32/Vetor-A [Sophos] Virus:Win32/Virut.AF [Microsoft] Virus.Win32.Virut.o [Ikarus]

• Notes:
• %UserProfile% is a variable that specifies the current user's profile folder. By default, this is C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName] (Windows NT/2000/XP).
• %System% is a variable that refers to the System folder. By default, this is C:\Windows\System (Windows 95/98/Me), C:\Winnt\System32 (Windows NT/2000), or C:\Windows\System32 (Windows XP).

Memory Modifications

• There were new processes created in the system:

Process Name	Process Filename	Main Module Size
reader_s.exe	%System%\reader_s.exe	N/A
reader_s.exe	%UserProfile%\reader_s.exe	N/A

• There was a new memory page created in the address space of the system process(es):

Process Name	Process Filename	Allocated Size
svchost.exe	%System%\svchost.exe	4,096 bytes

Registry Modifications

• The newly created Registry Values are:
• [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
• reader_s = "%System%\reader_s.exe"

so that reader_s.exe runs every time Windows starts

• [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
• reader_s = "%UserProfile%\reader_s.exe"

so that reader_s.exe runs every time Windows starts

Other details

• The following Host Name was requested from a host database:
• panda-server.ru

• There were registered attempts to establish connection with the remote hosts. The connection details are: