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MIME filtering immune to new MyDoom

Subject: MIME filtering immune to new MyDoom
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:22:27 -0000
Well, the new MyDoom "was created by repackaging an older MyDoom 
variant in an encrypted "wrapper" so that anti-virus software could 
not recognise it" according to Techworld - seeing a red rag I quickly 
checked my filtered folder and oopsie!  Thar' she blows ...

According to Symantec the worm may send itself as a double-zipped 
file (a zipfile within a zipfile) - if this is the "encrypted 
wrapper" referred to by Techworld I can report it makes absolutely no 
difference to the appearance of the worm from a MIME perspective:

Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="instruction.zip"

XEsDBAoAAA [...etc...] 

(first character changed to avoid tripping AV filters)

No need to change any settings (or update any sigs!) to detect this 
one!

URLs:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mydoom.bb@mm.html

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3163

http://www.cyberdelix.net/tech/filtering.htm

Stu

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