full-disclosure - New Worm Discovery - Potential Korgo Variant

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From: joe at joesmith.homeip.net (joe smith)
Subject: New Worm Discovery - Potential Korgo Variant

Kaspersky detect it as Backdoor.Agobot.gen.  So another one of the many 
other Agobot  variants.

Michael Young wrote:

> Yesterday a large client of ours was taken down by what appears to be 
> a Korgo variant, but I have been unable to locate any information on 
> this worm.  From what we have discovered, the main process is 
> ?VDisp.exe?.  It is spreading through unpatched systems vulnerable to 
> the LSASS exploit, and propagates itself through a serious of randomly 
> chosen ports.  The worm creates randomly generated services that 
> initialize the process, and also creates a registry entry in 
> RunServices and Run to load.  I am anxious to hear any feedback anyone 
> has regarding this issue as we are still attempting to reduce network 
> traffic and alleviate any remaining issues.  I have attached a copy of 
> the executable (rename to .exe).
>
>  
>
> Thank you,
>
>  
>
> Michael Young
>
> IT Consultant
>
> Miles Technologies
>
> (800)-496-8001
>