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I have not looked closely enough to try and compare code, but Symantec is reporting a new backdoor trojan program this afternoon on their security site:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.dragodor.html 

the information provided indicates it was discovered today.  

Mcafee and other sources also reported a new MyDoom variant late yesterday, but I'd assume there are already updates blocking that one:

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=mydoom

FYI.



John A. Resotko
Head of Systems Administration
Michigan State University College of Law
email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 517-432-6836
Current Chairperson of the 
MSU Network Communications Committee


>>> Richard Wiggins <[log in to unmask]> 1/27/2006 1:12 PM >>>
Matt Kolb, who heads the mail team for ACNS, looked into this new threat
this morning and has got mail.msu.edu blocking transmission of it.  He's
submitted it to the anti-virus consortium MSU participates in.  Matt may be
able to supply more information.

If anyone has links to threat assessments of this one from the anti-virus
industry that would be good to know.

/rich


On 1/27/06, Bryan Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I just received an email that looks fairly legit at first glance. It
> states
> that a rape occurred on campus and that attached you will find an image of
> the suspect as captured from campus CCTV.  The attached file (suspect
> image.exe) very well may be a virus (im sure as heck not going to run it
> to
> find out).  Mail.msu.edu's clam did not pick it up nor did NAV10 with dats
> dated yesterday.
>
> I am not able to pull much useful information from the exe via the unix
> strings command or ida pro.  If anyone has any more experience then I do
> with virus disassembly I would be happy to forward the idapro file.
>
> What I am able to pull from ida's hex view is some registry writing, file
> deletion, file creation and process manipulation, but no details.
>
> The contents of the email are attached bellow, you may want to warn your
> users on this (although I'm not sure how prevalent it is yet).
>
> Thanks.
>
> /-----------------------------------------
> | Bryan Murphy, CISSP
> | Information Technology Coordinator
> | MSU Plant Research Lab and Plant Biology
> | http://infotech.prl.msu.edu 
> \-----------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------/ suspect mail /------------------
>
> Return-path: <[log in to unmask]>
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on
> sys21.mail.msu.edu
> X-Spam-Level: *
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12,
>    MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0
> Envelope-to: [log in to unmask] 
> Delivery-date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:00:45 -0500
> Received: from client-82-19-18-185.mant.adsl.ntlworld.com ([82.19.18.185]
> helo=southern.edu)
>    by sys21.mail.msu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.52 #1)
>    id 1F2WxA-00089q-69
>    for [log in to unmask]; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:00:45 -0500
> From: "Mr Robert Atkins" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Rape on Campus
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:00:03 -0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>    boundary="----=_NextPart_8735D9CD401142400612F4268"
> X-Priority: 3
> X-Virus: None found by Clam AV
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> During the early morning of January 25 2006, a campus student was the
> victim
> of a horrific sexual assault within college grounds. Eyewitnesses report a
> tall black man in grey pants running away from the scene.  Campus CCTV has
> caught this man on camera and are looking for ways to identify him.  If
> anyone recognises the attached picture could they inform administraion
> immediatly
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Atkins
> Campus Administration
>
>
>
> All information contained within this e-mail, including any attachment, is
> confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it
> immediately. Do not use, disclose or spread the information in any way and
> notify the sender immediately. Any views and opinions expressed in this
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