Re: Strange services.exe file
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (bugtraq_at_planetcobalt.net)
Date: 12/10/03
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:09:30 +0100 To: incidents@securityfocus.com
On 2003-12-08 Dano wrote:
> Hello, I came across a strange services.exe file in WinXP and don't
> know how it got there. This services.exe landed in the root
> c:\windows\services.exe with a hidden attrib flag set. There was also
> a registry key set at HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run
> with the value "services C:\WINDOWS\services.exe -i". What it appeared
> to do was send data back to hosts dhcp-ve3-101.cable.amis.net
> (212.18.53.101) and um-sd04-907.uni-mb.si (164.8.15.109). I'm stil in
> progress of disecting this to find out what exactly it does.
Probably the XTC worm (or a mutation of it).
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_98913.htm
Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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