Security Incidents: RE: wmon16.exe

[Meidinger Chris <chris.meidinger () badenit de>]

Those symptoms sound exactly like some variant of agobot/phatbot.

info:   http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotlb.html
        http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotrg.html

there are lots of variants, and it will probably not be fun to clean. If you
are not patched, I would probably turn off your switches at this point.

As far as the name, the best I can find is this, nothing concrete: 

        http://anticode.antionline.com/download.php?op=geninfo&did=35122

Good lunk, feel free to mail if you want to talk,

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason High [mailto:strongcypher () hotmail com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:03 PM
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: wmon16.exe
>
> I believe that I have a HUGE problem, and I can't find 
> anything anywhere.  
> Here are our symptoms:
>
> - C:\winnt\system32\wmon16.exe appeared and began running (no 
> idea what it is or does)
> - hosts file was altered to redirect antivirus sites to 
> 127.0.0.1 (similar to Trojan.QHOST but nothing else matches
> - disables antivirus
> - creates lots of connections to network computers using 
> microsoft-ds and netbios ports
>
> I am completely lost.  No removal tools have worked, no A/V 
> is picking it up.  I've got about four hosts with these 
> symptoms (so far) and I'm just unplugging network cables at 
> this point.  Anyone with any pointers?
>
>
> Jason E. High,RHCT,GSEC,MCP
> http://www.alwaysright.org
>
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