Win32/Bundpil.BO

Posted: May 6, 2014

Threat Metric

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Threat Level:	9/10
Infected PCs:	26

First Seen:	May 6, 2014
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Win32/Bundpil.BO is a worm with especially prominent infection rates in southwestern Asia. The capacity for worms like Win32/Bundpil.BO to duplicate themselves often is their highlight in technology news headlines, but malware experts also have seen other functions from Win32/Bundpil.BO that are worthy of mention, including its ability to install other PC threats. As usual, removing all copies of Win32/Bundpil.BO from your PC always is a matter best left to dedicated anti-malware tools.

A Worm Spies New Victims for Contamination

Win32/Bundpil.BO is a new update to previous versions of Bundpil, a worm that first was detected in the middle of last year. Previous distribution models for Win32/Bundpil.BO worms focused on Mongolia and Afghanistan, but recent, statistically noteworthy increases in Win32/Bundpil.BO infections also were confirmed for India. Besides the cloning and self-distributing functions common to all worms (as elaborated on later in this article), Win32/Bundpil.BO also lays claim to some specific attack functions. Malware experts find the most mentionable of these attacks to be as follows:

Win32/Bundpil.BO may download and launch other files automatically. Threats most often may use this function to install other threats, or other components of a PC threat with a modular structure.
Win32/Bundpil.BO may delete other files on your PC. Win32/Bundpil.BO targets specific file types: executable (or EXE), Visual Basic Script (VBS), Program Information (PIF) and batch files (CMD). Win32/Bundpil.BO also may target and delete file backups.

Closing the Tunnels Win32/Bundpil.BO Uses to Infect Your PC

The rise of new worms like Win32/Bundpil.BO also is a newsworthy security problem due to the tendency for worm distribution to get out of hand with little forewarning. Win32/Bundpil.BO may create copies of itself, install itself by infecting removable hard drive-based devices (including your USB thumb drive) or try to distribute itself over a local network. In all cases of a possible Win32/Bundpil.BO infection, malware researchers recommend isolating the infected machine. Other PCs should avoid sharing devices with an infected PC and avoid interacting with the infected PC over a network.

Because Win32/Bundpil.BO is very likely to create backup files for itself, and may conceal these files in several locations, removing Win32/Bundpil.BO worms completely is impractical to do by hand. Malware experts find it most efficient to use anti-malware products to detect all copies of any given worm, along with the other threats that Win32/Bundpil.BO may install to further additional attacks.

Only some of Win32/Bundpil.BO's attacks are linked to specific symptoms, such as vanishing files caused by its attempt to disable programs (most often, security-related ones). A visible appearance of security on a peripheral device never should be mistaken for actual safety, and most worms, including Win32/Bundpil.BO and its variants have more than one way of hiding their files from any attentive victims.

Win32/Bundpil.BO

Threat Metric

A Worm Spies New Victims for Contamination

Closing the Tunnels Win32/Bundpil.BO Uses to Infect Your PC

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