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WORM_CHET.A
Overview

Malware type: Worm

Aliases: Email-Worm.Win32.Chet.a (Kaspersky), W32/Chet.a@MM (McAfee), W32.Chet@mm (Symantec), Worm/Chet (Avira), W32/Chet-A (Sophos), Worm:Win32/Chet.A@mm (Microsoft)

In the wild: No

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:


Description: 
This worm drops a copy of itself as SYNCHOST1.EXE in the system directory.

It attempts to send copies of itself via email with the following details, but due to some deficiencies in its code, it fails to do so:

From: Main@World.Com
Subject: All people!!
Message Body: Dear ladies and gentlemen! The given letter does not contain viruses, and is not Spam. We ask you to be in earnest to this letter. As you know America and England have begun bombardment of Iraq, cause of its threat for all the world. It isn't the truth. The real reason is in money laundering and also to cover up traces after acts of terrorism September, 11, 2001. Are real proofs of connection between Bush and Al-Qaeda necessary for you? Please! There is a friendly dialogue between Bin Laden and the secretary of a state security of USA in the given photos. In the following photo you'll see, how FBI discusses how to strike over New York to lose people as much as possible. And the document representing the super confidential agreement between CIA and Al-Qaeda is submitted to your attention. All this circus was specially played to powder brains!! You'll find out the truth. Naked truth, instead of TV showed. For your convenience, and to make letter less, all documentary materials (photos and MS Word documents) are located in one EXE file. Open it, and all materials will be installed on your computer. You will receive the freshest and classified documents automatically from our site. It isn't a virus! You can trust us absolutely. We hope, that it will open your eyes on many things occurring in this world.
Attachment: '11september.exe ' (note there is a trailing space)

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Solution
Technical Details

Description created: Sep. 10, 2002 2:50:43 PM GMT -0800
Description updated: Sep. 10, 2002 3:32:22 PM GMT -0800

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