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Rjump Computer Virus

W32 Rjump.worm is a worm target USB memory drives and disk devices. It attempts to spread by coping itself to mapped and removable storage drives and also opens a backdoor on an infected system. It creates a port exception for its backdoor component to bypass the built-in firewall of WinXp by executing the following netsh command. cmd.exe / c netsh firewall add portopening TCP 16942. Then then post ip address and backdoor port information from an infected machine back to the virus author.

Method of Infection

W32 / Rjump.worm lists all mapped and removable storage drives on an infected system and drops the following files onto the root folder of the available drive: autorun.inf

On execution, it creates a copy of itself into the windows system directory: %Windir% \ RAVMON.EXEAlso create a non-malicious "RavMonLog" file that contains the port number on which its backdoor component listens.

Adds the following values to the registry to auto start itself when Windows starts:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run
"RavAV" = "%Windir% \ RAVMON.EXE"

New iPod RJump Virus 24-Oct-2006


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