W32.Evaman.C@mm

Risk Level 2: Low

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Discovered:: August 3, 2004
Updated:: February 13, 2007 12:25:58 PM
Also Known As:: WORM_MYDOOM.O [Trend Micro], W32/Mydoom.q@MM [McAfee], W32/MyDoom-Q [Sophos], I-Worm.Mydoom.o [Kaspersky], W32/Mydoom.P.worm [Panda]
Type:: Worm
Systems Affected:: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

W32.Evaman.C@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends HTTP Get requests to the Web site, email.people.yahoo.com, to obtain email addresses. It also retrieves the email addresses from Windows Address Book files and from the files with the extensions .adb, .asp, .cfg, .dbx, .dhtm, .eml, .htm, .html, .jse, .jsp, .mmf, .msg, .ods, .php, .pl, .sht, .shtm, .shtml, .tbb, .txt, .wab, and .xml.

W32.Evaman.C@mm uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the email addresses that it finds.

The email will have one of these subjects:

SN: New secure mail
Secure delivery
failed transaction
Re: hello (Secure-Mail)
Re: Extended Mail
Delivery Status (Secure)
Re: Server Reply
SN: Server Status

This threat is compressed with UPX.