W32.Evaman.C@mm

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.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version August 4, 2004
• Latest Rapid Release version July 19, 2008 revision 019
• Initial Daily Certified version August 4, 2004
• Latest Daily Certified version January 20, 2009 revision 048
• Initial Weekly Certified release date August 4, 2004

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Threat Assessment

Wild

• Wild Level: Low
• Number of Infections: 0 - 49
• Number of Sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical Distribution: Low
• Threat Containment: Easy
• Removal: Moderate

Damage

• Damage Level: Medium

Distribution

• Distribution Level: High