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Netsky.C worm
Email characteristics

By Mary Landesman, About.com

Mar 2 2004
Netsky.C uses its own SMTP engine, thus copies of the sent email will not appear in the Sent Items folder on infected systems. The email Subject may be any one of the following: Delivery Failed, Status, report, question, trust me, hey, Re: excuse me, read it immediatelly, hi, Re: does it?, Yep, important, hello, dear, Re: unknown, fake?, warning, moin, what's up?, info, Re: information, Here is it, stolen, private?, good morning, illegal..., error, take it, re:, Re: Re: Re: Re:, you?, something for you, exception, Re: hey, excuse me, Re: hi, Re: does it?, Re: important, Re: hello, believe me, Question, denied!, notification, Re: <5664ddff?$??º2>, lol, last chance!, I'm back!, its me, or notice!

The Message Body is randomly composed from an even more extensive list of options. A complete list of possible message bodies may be found in Symantec's description of the worm.

The attachment will be randomly named, using the extensions previously discussed on page one. The name of the attachment will be selected from the following: document, associal, msg, yours, doc, wife, talk, message, response, creditcard, description, details, attachment, pic, me, trash, card, stuff, poster, posting, portmoney, textfile, moonlight, concert, sexy, information, news, note, number_phone, bill, mydate, swimmingpool, class_photos, product, old_photos, topseller, ps, important, shower, myaunt, aboutyou, yours, nomoney, birth, found, death, story, worker, mails, letter, more, website, regards, regid, friend, unfolds, jokes, doc_ang, your_stuff, location, 454543403, final, schock, release, webcam, dinner, intimate stuff, sexual, ranking, object, secrets, mail2, attach2, part2, msg2, disco, freaky, visa, party, material, misc, nothing, transfer, auction, warez, undefinied, violence, update, masturbation, injection, naked1, naked2, tear, music, paypal, id, privacy, word_doc, image, or incest.

Netsky will also drop randomly named ZIP files into the Windows directory, using the same list of options used for the attachment names.

Also see: Netsky.B worm

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