Malware Information

Malware nameWorm.Recycled.A
TypeWorm
Affected platformWin32
Media-Typeapplication/executable
MD5 checksum3CE7DC84B0D27EEE6DA0024D1ECAE4E6
Static fileyes
Filesize13,824 Bytes
Alias names
(also known as)
Webwasher ProactiveWin32.Malware.gen!86
SophosW32/Autoham-Fam
McAfeeDDoS-Leba
CA ETrustWin32/Hamweq!generic
Protection
Webwasher Anti Malware7000.4201.x
Webwasher ProactiveDatabase Version: 101
Side effects
  • Drops a file
  • Registry modification
  • Third party control
PropagationNo own spreading routine

Description:

Files

It copies itself to the following location:
• c:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-1482476501-1644491937-682003330-1013\winse32.exe



It creates the following directory:
• c:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-1482476501-1644491937-682003330-1013



The following file is created:

– c:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-1482476501-1644491937-682003330-1013\Desktop.ini This is a non malicious text file with the following content:
• [.ShellClassInfo]
CLSID={645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Registry

The following registry key is added:

– [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\
{28ABC5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAX5-81CX1C635612}]
• StubPath="c:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-1482476501-1644491937-682003330-1013\winse32.exe"

Injection

– It injects itself into a process.

All of the following processes:
• firefox.exe
• explorer.exe


IRC

To deliver system information and to provide remote control it connects to the following IRC Servers:

Server: hail.dns2go.**********
Port: 7000
Server password: 01470147
Nickname: mtnelf

Server: scorti1.dns2go.**********
Port: 7000
Server password: 01470147
Nickname: mtnelf


– Furthermore it has the ability to perform actions such as:
• Launch DDoS SYN flood
• Launch DDoS UDP flood
• Join IRC channel

File details

Runtime packer:
In order to aggravate detection and reduce size of the file it is packed with a runtime packer.