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Effects
The main purpose of Bride is to spread via e-mail and remove every icon from the desktop temporarily.
Infection strategy
Bride creates the following files:
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REGEDIT.EXE, in the Windows system directory. This file is run every time Windows is started up.
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EXPLORER.EXE, in the Windows desktop. This is a copy of the worm. This file has the same icon as Internet Explorer. In this way, the file tries to go unnoticed by users.
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HELP.EML, in the Windows desktop. This is a copy of the message that the worm sends out.
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BRIDE.EXE, in the Windows system directory. This file is a variation of the virus detected by Panda as W32/FunLove.4099.Dr.
Bride creates the following entry in the Windows Registry:
Bride looks for the following entry in order to obtain information about the affected computer's operating system:
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HKEY_Local_Machine\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion
Means of transmission
Bride spreads mainly by e-mail sending itself out to every address it finds in the affected computer's HTM files as well as the Outlook Express trays.
It arrives in a message with variable characteristics. The subject field appears empty, whereas the rest of features are the following:
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To: <address>
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From: <name><address>
Where:
<name> is the name of the affected user.
<address> is the e-mail address of the message recipient.
Example:
If a user named John (John@mail.com) is affected by this worm and an e-mail is sent from his computer to a user called Peter (Peter@mail.com), the message header would be the following:
To: Peter@mail.com
From: John[Peter@mail.com]
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Message:
Hello,
Product Name:<OS>
Product Id: <ID>
Product Key: <Key>
Process List:
Thank you
Where
<OS> is the name of the operating system installed on the affected computer.
<ID> is the product identifier
<Key> is the product key
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Attachment:
README.EXE
The worm activates when the attached file is run, and even when the message is viewed through Outlook's Preview pane (Bride takes advantage of the Exploit/iFrame vulnerability).
Further Details
Bride has a size of 114,687 bytes and is programmed in Visual Basic 6.