full-disclosure - Virus Outbreak Attacking MS05-039 WIN2K

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Date: Mon Aug 15 17:18:12 2005
From: jstewart at lurhq.com (Joe Stewart)
Subject: Virus Outbreak Attacking MS05-039 WIN2K

On Monday 15 August 2005 11:26 am, Andrew Smith wrote:
> Can anyone explain why this virus chooses to block ebay, amazon and
> paypal? This seems foolish if the intention is to remain on the
> compromised host un-noticed.

Recent versions of Mytob do the same thing. Mytob, if you remember, is 
R[x]bot + Mydoom. It appears that Zotob is just the Mytob code with the 
Mydoom code removed and replaced by the MS05-039 spreader, and that 
both codebases are maintained by the same person. Doesn't explain his 
motives for blocking those sites, but does explain why it is in the 
Zotob codebase.

-Joe

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Joe Stewart, GCIH 
Senior Security Researcher
LURHQ http://www.lurhq.com/