The message that Gismor sends has the following properties:

From: MP3 Deluxe
To: My best friends
Subject: Phenomenal

The message has no text in the body and has an attachment called 'MP3Player.exe'.

When the infected attachment is run it copies itself to Windows System Directory as 'SSMS.EXE' and adds this copy to the registry as

 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SSMS.EXE'

The worm uses MAPI to list all the incoming messages and sends an infected message to each sender it finds there. It uses direct SMTP connection to send the infected messages. The SMTP settings are fetched from the first active account from the user's settings. If the worm does not find the SMTP setting in the registry it uses a predefined SMTP server.

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