Security experts at MicroWorld
Technologies inform that a worm named ‘Worm.Win32.Scano.e’
spreads via emails written in Russian carrying an
attachment in ‘HTA’ format.
The malicious component of this Worm is a Windows
PE EXE file. Once inside the victim’s computer,
it goes about stealing the email addresses from user’s
address book and starts sending itself as attachments
to the email-ids found. The subject and body of the
mail vary as it is chosen randomly from a list.
“The earlier versions of Scano and similar types,
used to spread via injecting script worms through
Internet Explorer vulnerabilities,” says Arti
Taru, Assistant Manager, R&D, MicroWorld
Technologies. “But this one takes the email
route and can claim large number of victims as it
nicks email addresses from the victim’s computer.
Well, if a normal user receives an email from his
friend, carrying a rather harmless looking ‘HTA’
attachment, I don’t see a reason why he should
be apprehensive about opening it!”
At the next level, Scano.e logs on to various pre-decided
websites and downloads more dangerous Trojans and
Backdoors without the knowledge of the user. Such
backdoors can even turn your computer to a remote-controlled
bot, via IRC channels.
“The modus operandi of many new breeds of malware,
is to find a foothold in your computer in the first
place, using a small piece of malware code. Then it
moves on to downloading more harmful stuff from specific
websites. Some of them can upgrade to a higher degree
of threat while some others can mutate to become different
breed altogether with the newly acquired components,”
explains Govind Rammurthy, CEO, MicroWorld Technologies.
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