Some of the known names for the attachments include: exe" and "Flash Postcard.exe," with more changes from the original wave as the attack mutates. The Trojan piggybacks on the spam with names such as "postcard.
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According to Symantec, it may also download and run the trojan, and the worm. When an attachment is opened, the malware installs the wincom32 service, and injects a payload, passing on packets to destinations encoded within the malware itself.
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A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!.–Amado Hidalgo, a researcher with Symantec's security response group. "During our tests we saw an infected machine sending a burst of almost 1,800 emails in a five-minute period and then it just stopped." There is evidence, according to PCWorld, that the Storm Worm was of Russian origin, possibly traceable to the Russian Business Network. As of January 22, 2007, the Storm Worm accounted for 8% of all malware infections globally. During the weekend there were six subsequent waves of the attack. The Storm Worm began attacking thousands of (mostly private) computers in Europe and the United States on Friday, January 19, 2007, using an e-mail message with a subject line about a recent weather disaster, "230 dead as storm batters Europe". Trojan.Peed, Trojan.Tibs ( BitDefender).and Downloader-BAI (specific variant) ( McAfee).
The Storm Worm (dubbed so by the Finnish company F-Secure) is a phishing backdoor Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems, discovered on January 17, 2007. Examples of e-mails with "Storm Worm" in the attachment