PowerShell worm Skowor

 
 
 

Name
Worm.MSH.Skowor.A

 

Type
Worm

 

 

Author
sk0r/Czybik

 

 

Written in
PowerShell
 

 

Description

I was looking for PowerShell based malware and eventually found the POC Skowor worm. The only worm written in this language.
It attempts to propagate via the Kazaa P2P network by putting a copy of itself in the shared folders. As far as I see there is no typical malicious payload except it overwrites files [...]

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Name
Win32/Blaster/Worm (Lovsan, Lovesan)

 

Type
Spreader, Worm

 

 

Author
Unknown

 

 

Written in
C
 

 

Description

This worm was very active in 2003. It spreaded via an RPC vulnerability and executed a DoS attack on a specific date. It’s a well structured code, easy to read and understand. The intresting paragraphs are the spreader which attacks new victim system to learn and see how (easily) it [...]

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Name
Win32/ogw0rm

 

Type
Spreader, Worm

 

 

Author
Unknown

 

 

Written in
C
 

 

Description

Ogw0rm is a good example how malware propagates itself via Instant Messaging apps. It checks the process list for running IM applications and propagates itself by sending messages to new victims.
It shows how to enumerate Windows, send key strokes to the OS, Registry stuff and a little networking stuff. A simple malware source [...]

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Name
Win32/Rbot

 

Malware type
RAT, Worm

 

 

Author
Unknown

 

 

Written in
C
 

 

Description

Rbot is an IRC controlled backdoor (or “bot”) that can be used to gain unauthorized access to a victim’s machine. It can also exhibit worm-like functionality by exploiting weak passwords on administrative shares and by exploiting many different software vulnerabilities, as well as backdoors created by other malware. There are many variants [...]

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