This worm may be dropped by other malware. It may arrive via network shares. It may also be downloaded unknowingly by a user when visiting malicious Web sites.

This worm drops several copies of itself. This worm creates registry entries to enable its automatic execution at every system startup. It also employs registry shell spawning so that it executes when files of certain types are run.

It uses Windows Task Scheduler to create a scheduled task that executes the dropped copy. It does this by creating certain files.

It prohibits the execution of the following processes by creating registry entries.

This worm drops copies of itself in network, physical, and removable drives. It also drops an AUTORUN.INF file to automatically execute its dropped copies when the said drives are accessed. The AUTORUN.INF file contains the following strings:

This worm drops a copy of itself in all folders found in removable drives using the folder name as its file name. It overwrites the file, AUTOEXEC.BAT, to enable its automatic execution in every system startup.

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