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Danger
Diffusion

Plage2000 is an harmless virus, which inflicts less damage to the user, but to the email traffic

Plage2000:

Virus name

Plage2000

Type

Internet Worm 

Infection:
The virus is transfered to your PC by opening an Email attachment. The infectionmail is masked as an answer to a written email. The text of this Email is:
"I'll try to reply as soon as possible. Take a look to the attachment and send me your opinion!"
The known names of the attachmentfile are pics.exe, images.exe, joke.exe, PsPGame.exe, newsdoc.exe, hamster.exe, tamagotxi.exe, searchURL.exe, SETUP.EXE, Card.EXE, billgt.exe, midsong.exe, s3msong.exe, docs.exe, humor.exe or fun.exe. 

Payload:
If the attachment is opened, an self-extracting WinZip-File seems to be opened. After confirmation to UnZip the file one of the following messages appear:

  • "WinZip self-Extractor
    ZIP damaged: file worm name: Bad CRC number.
    Possible cause: file transfer error" 

  • "WinZip self-Extractor - worm name:worm name - Application Error The exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the application ...." 

In the meantime the virus copies itself under the name INETD.EXE into the Windowsdirectory. It creates a new registry entry under the key
"HKEYCURRENTUSER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windowsrun\ Windowsverzeichnis INETD.EXE". The virus gets every 5 minutes in contact with the Email-Client, Outlook or Exchange, and tries to answer Emails.

Remarks:
The answered mails cannot be read. Plage2000 causes no damge on your PC, but the answermails can relevant endanger the infrastructure of the emailsending.

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