Old-School Bagle Worm Spotted in Modern Spam Campaigns

guest · Dec 10, 2018

Old-School Bagle Worm Spotted in Modern Spam Campaigns
Bagle.A and Bagle.B date back to 2004
December 10, 2018
https://threatpost.com/old-school-bagle-worm-spotted-in-modern-spam-campaigns/139746/

Also referred to as Beagle, Bagel contains a backdoor that listens on TCP port 6777 which is hardcoded in the worm’s body. This backdoor component provides remote access to the infected computer and can be used to download and execute other malware from the internet.

The bad code was first seen in January 2004, and since then has morphed to spawn plenty of different variants. Despite having so many malware options to choose from, the latest campaigns are going old-school, according to researchers at Comodo, writing in a posting on Monday. They involve the use of the very first two variants of the worm, Bagle.A and Bagel.B.

But the fact that the variants are elderly doesn’t make them any less effective: Comodo said that Bagle.B in particular has become quite virulent with the new mass-email effort, so IT admins would be wise to be on the lookout.
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