W32/Wukill.A@mm

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  • Virus is 32bit with a bloated file size of 1,208,320 bytes - virus contains 1,181,855 bytes of appended hex 00
  • This virus was coded using Visual Basic 6 and has a dependency on MSVBVM60.DLL and VB6CHS.DLL (Simplified Chinese VB6 Runtime)
  • If the virus is run, it will copy itself to the Windows folder as "MSTRAY.EXE" and modify the registry to load at Windows startup -
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
    "RavTime" = C:\WINNT\Mstray.exe
  • The virus may then attempt to create and send an email in the following format to all users found in the Windows address book -

    Subject: A Important Message From (username)
    Body:
    This is a progrom for Ms-Dos from Microsoft,It can help you to study Ms-Dos.
    Don 't you want to see ?
    Attachment: mshelp.exe

  • The virus contains the strings "wukill Xgtray" in its code


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Version Updates

Date Version Detail
2021-09-14 89.01080
2021-07-07 87.00461