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WORM_BAGLE.A
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Malware type: Worm

Aliases: Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.w (Kaspersky), W32/Bagle.gen@MM (McAfee), Trojan.Mitglieder.F (Symantec), TR/Proxy.Mitgl.AV (Avira), Troj/Lohav-G (Sophos),

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:

Reported infections:

Damage potential:

 High

Distribution potential:

 High

Description: 

This worm sends email to addresses gathered from files with certain extensions, adding itself as an attachment. It uses Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send out email with the following details:

Subject: Hi Message body: Test =) <Random characters> Test, yep. Attachment: <Random characters>.exe

It checks the current system date, terminating if the system date is January 28, 2004 or later.

It opens and listens to port 6777 and allows remote users to access and manipulate to infected systems.

This worm runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.

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Description created: Jan. 18, 2004 12:42:24 PM GMT -0800
Description updated: Jan. 19, 2004 7:04:21 PM GMT -0800

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