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Today the Norman malware lab received a sample of a worm that changes the Windows password of the logged on user. Obviously, this can be quite annoying. However, this variant uses a static password : “H3H3H3”.

The worm was submitted from Indonesia, and is what is called an “autorun” worm – it copies itself to available drives and adds an autorun.inf file so as to be run automatically when f.ex. a removable drive is accessed. This is a quite common infection method.

File size : 327680 bytes
MD5 hash : e3ba28cf84a53a6ddd4f28f82acd0afe

File names used by the worm:
updater.exe
isass.exe
klmcodec568.exe

Additional files added:
change.vbs
autorun.inf

This worm will be detected as W32/PassChange.A by Norman Virus Control using defs from today, Nov. 21. 2008 or later.