Those in the Australian state of Queensland are having a cull of cane toads, a pest.  I don’t know whether it would work, but the mass reduction of a pest population is, generally speaking, a good thing.  It may not eliminate the problem once and for all, but a sharp decrease in population is usually better than a constant pressure on a species.

So, is there any way we can get some support going for a mass cull of computer viruses?  Most currently “successful” viruses are related to botnets, and botnets are often used to seed out new viruses.  Viruses are used to distribute other forms of malware.  Doing a number on viruses would really help the information security situation all around.  (I have, for some years, been promoting the idea that corporations, by sponsoring security awareness for the general public, would, in fact, be doing a lot to reduce the level of risk in the computing and networking environment, and therefore improving their own security posture.)

Recent news that UK government approving Police hacking into suspected home computers has caused a bubble in the info-sec world. They can hack into private computers either by sending an e-mail containing a virus to the suspect’s computer or breaking into a residence to install a keystroke logger onto a machine or simply place a surveillance van in the vicinity of a wireless network to intercept the traffic. Computers of users who are suspected of terrorism, pedophilia or identity or credit card theft will be targeted.

They have even asked the security product/services providers to stop detecting/blocking their keyloggers and other spyware tools. However few security vendors have raised an issue and expressed their inability to cooperate with the federals. As per Znet, security vendors Kaspersky Labs and Sophos told ZDNet UK that they would not make any concession in their protective software for the police hack. Symantec has not commented on this. However in the past they have Symantec has said that its antivirus software will not scan for the FBI’s Magic Lantern keylogging software. This is a spyware program that the Feds can hack into your machine to log and report all keystrokes back to them.

I personally find this very scary and “privacy intruded” and since conceptually there’s no difference between a malicious code and the one used for the Government, there are BIG chances that an AV can miss it!!!

This means punching a BIG hole in the security device which in turn is surely a big Boom for malware authors. If Cops drop a trojan on suspect’s system installed with antivirus software white-listing Police hacking tools and if this suspect turns out to a prestigious member of underground malware writers, then he can reverse engineer the cop-hack-tool to write his own code and compromise more such systems.

I personally feel Kaspersky Labs and Sophos are really doing a good job by taking their stand on not creating a backdoor for malware writers.

Google has garnered a lot of interest, over the past day or two, with its radically new idea, released under the name Native Client.  You can read the announcement at http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/12/native-client-technology-for-running.html or download the research paper (in PDF) at http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nacl/googleclient/native_client/documentation/nacl_paper.pdf
That idea sounded so familiar I just knew it had to have been done before.

It has.  It’s just a dressed up version of an activity monitor.  The oldest form of AV actually implemented.  In fact, it dates back to the days just slightly before the first PC viruses, when people were trying to prevent damage by some of the early PC trojans that were being shared on BBSes.

Or, if they take it far enough, and if you like, you can call it a form of virtual machine.  And we are back to http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1171

It’s good to see that my challenge from yesterday to write a blog post a day for the next week seems to have got some people blogging on here again, so c’mon, let’s try and keep this up for the week.

If no-one’s ever read the INSECURE magazine before, then now is a great time to start reading them, and go through the back issues as well, as the information held within this magazine is usually really worthwhile.

To give you an overview of what’s contained within this months issue, here’s the index.

• The future of AV: looking for the good while stopping the bad
• Eight holes in Windows login controls
• Extended validation and online security: EV SSL gets the green light
• Interview with Giles Hogben, an expert on identity and authentication technologies working at ENISA
• Web filtering in a Web 2.0 world
• RSA Conference Europe 2008
• The role of password management in compliance with the data protection act
• Securing data beyond PCI in a SOA environment: best practices for advanced data protection
• Three undocumented layers of the OSI model and their impact on security
• Interview with Rich Mogull, founder of Securosis

You can download the magazine from here:

http://www.net-security.org/insecuremag.php
Hats off to the guys and girls at Net-Security for working so hard on a top quality magazine.

Update: Corrected link

New Trojan horse for Mac environment has been discovered.

The Trojan is known as OSX.Lamzev.A by Symantec.

When it is executed it will create the file ezmal to the Applications folder (the name is Applications in localized installations too).

The names of earlier widely known OS X malware are Mac.Hovdy.a (June ‘08), OSX.Exploit.Launchd (June ‘06) and Leap.A (February ‘06). When saying ‘widely known’ it doesn’t mean that they were widely spreaded.

I remember the exact number of 63 when talking about known Mac malware.

There are no worms for Apple - yet.

RSA Security’s Blog has information about the seriousness of the Sinowal banking Trojan.

Like many of us know this Trojan aka Trojan-PSW:W32/Sinowal.CP and Trojan.Mebroo uses so-called MBR rootkit technique.

Link here.

Randy Abrams recently pointed out to me that today is the 20th anniversary of the Morris Worm. For all you kids out there who have no recollection of this event, I’ve just posted a blog at http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=165 that recaps on the worm and includes some relevant references, but right now I want to expand on a thought I had while I was writing it.

The Morris worm was very much of its time. It was a proof of concept (actually of several concepts) item of malware that showed a certain interest in and knowledge of some vulnerabilities that were current at that time (mostly a fingerd buffer overflow exploit and a somewhat flaky implementation of sendmail debugging), and was clearly meant to be self-launching. Most current malware, while it may well use drive-by downloads and other exploits, seems to use some form of social engineering. So maybe the earlier CHRISTMA EXEC worm was the real pioneer, with its mass mailing payload and its chainletter appeal to the gullibility of the victim. Well, we can draw dotted lines between old and new malware from now to Christmas, which is the sort of thing that interests saddos like me but doesn’t necessarily gain us much in terms of securing the internet.

Looking through some historical resources, it strikes me that there are some moments in malware history that not only define the time, but in some way draw a line under it, though Morris was followed by a copycat VMS worm the following year). After that, though, we waited quite a while for a real mass mailer epidemic and for the big network worms of this decade. Melissa managed to mark both the beginning of heavy duty mass mailers and the end (or at least the decline) of macro malware. Yet there are no full stops here. In 2008, we’re still seeing new(-ish) stuff cheek-by-jowl with the sort of malware we’ve mostly forgotten about: old-time boot sector viruses and new-age MBR rootkits; macro viruses and office suite exploits; overflows and drive-bys; and an endless loop of social engineering tricks (phishes, 419s, fake admin messages, fake codecs, fake updates…) The only really substantial change is the disappearance of the hobbyist hacker/malware author, promoted into full-blown cyber-criminality.

It seems that what we really need to patch is human nature: the evil gene, the greed gene, the careless gene, the “what’s a patch?” gene, the “I can click on anything because I have anti-virus software” gene…

David Harley CISSP FBCS CITP
ESET LLC

The RPC Worm Victim List has a list [.txt] of hundreds machines and they are mainly Windows XP machines (MSIE 6.0 or MSIE7.0; Windows NT 5.1 in browser’s user agent).

I made a script to generate WHOIS queries and the results say that the victim machines are located mainly in Australia, China, Philippines, India, Japan, Korea, Malta, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. There are only some machines in France, UK, and USA.

It’s very interesting that there is an IP from Microsoft too - a Wget machine with IP address 64.147.0.80. The Wget version is 1.10.2.

Whois Record

OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US

NetRange: 131.107.0.0 - 131.107.255.255
CIDR: 131.107.0.0/16
NetName: MICROSOFT

There are several Wget UA’s included, one with the version number Wget/1.8.2 too.

I recommend that Redmon guys patch that machine ASAP

Summary:
This is Frequently Asked Questions document about new, recently patched RPC vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The document describes related Trojan and worm malware as well.
It is worth of noticing that code execution type vulnerabilities in Office programs are widely used to industrial espionage since 2006. This time the exploitation represents the use of non-Office vulnerabilities and e-mail attack vector is not used.

Update: After the weekend the malware analyses shows that the Trojan has designed to steal credential information and to collect a botnet-like network.

Q: What is the recent Microsoft Window RPC vulnerability disclosed in October?
A: This vulnerability is caused by an error when processing malformed RPC (Remote Procedure Call) requests. The issue was disclosed by the vendor after active exploitation of the vulnerability.
Q: How does the vulnerability mentioned works?
A: The vulnerability is code execution type vulnerability. Attacker successfully exploiting this vulnerability can run code of his or hers choice in the affected machine.
This vulnerability is caused due to overflow when handling malformed RPC requests. This enables executing arbitrary code of the attacker. Technically the vulnerability exists in the Server service.

Q: When this vulnerability was found?
A: The exact information is not available. Information about upcoming security update was announced on 22nd October, but this vulnerability has been used in targeted attacks at least two weeks already. The exploitation disclosed the existence of vulnerability.

Q: What is the mechanism in exploitation?
A: Information was not disclosed, but during the exploitation malicious executables are being downloaded and executed from the remote Web site.

Q: Is the exploit code of this vulnerability publicly released?
A: Yes. On Friday 24th October the proof of concept code was released on a blog of security researcher and on public, moderated security mailing list. The PoC has been released at several well-known exploit and security community Web sites too. Metasploit module has been released too (link). PoC’s work against Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003 Server SP2 machines.

Q: Which Windows versions are affected?
A: Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008 systems are affected.

Q: I am using the 7 Pre-Beta version of Windows, is my operating system affected?
A: According to the Microsoft it is affected too. An update is available (see MS08-067).

Q: I am a home user, is it possible to update my system in a normal way via Microsoft Update?
A: Yes, visiting the Microsoft Update Web site at http://update.microsoft.com/ will update the system against the exploitation of the vulnerability. If the Automatic Updates is enabled the system will be updated automatically without user’s actions.

Q: Where are the official Microsoft documents related to this case located?
A: The official Security Bulletin MS08-067, entitled Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958644) has been released at Microsoft TechNet Security section:
www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx
Updated information released by the vendor has been covered at MSRC Blog (The Microsoft Security Response Center Blog). The address of the blog is blogs.technet.com/msrc/.
File information of the MS08-067 security update has been released at separate Knowledge Base document #958644: support.microsoft.com/kb/958644.
Microsoft Security Advisory #958963 released to notify the availability of the security update is located at
www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/958963.mspx

Q: What the term ‘out-of-band’ means?
A: Normally Microsoft releases security updates once a month, at the second Tuesday of the every month. Very rarely, during the Windows ANI vulnerability etc. the security update will come out outside of this regular update cycle. Out-of-band and out-of-cycle describe the situation when waiting the regular update Tuesday, so-called Patch Tuesday is not enough to protect Windows systems against exploitation.
The next security updates will be released on Tuesday 11th November.

Update:
Q: Is this a new Slammer worm?
A: No, due to new security features included to SP2 etc. However, on 3rd Nov it was reported about the worm exploiting this vulnerability.

Q: Are there any workarounds available? Our organization is making tests with the patch still.
A: The security bulletin lists the following workarounds:
-Disable the Server and Computer Browser services
-Block TCP ports 139 and 445 at the firewall

Q: Is there Snort rules for this vulnerability available?
A: Yes. Additional details can be obtained at
www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/vrt-rules-2008-10-23.html
known as a ruleset against Microsoft DCE/RPC remote code execution attempts.
The download address is www.snort.org/pub-bin/downloads.cgi
(to paying Sourcefire customers)
Emerging Threats project has released new signatures too, details at
http://www.emergingthreats.net/index.php/component/content/article/17-sigs/125-weekly-new-signatures-october-25-2008.html

Q: What is the situation of Nessus plugins related to this vulnerability?
A: Nessus Plugin ID #34476 has been released. More information is available at
www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34476

Q: What are the target organizations etc. of this vulnerability?
A: This information is not available and probably it will never go public. Microsoft has confirmed that fever than 100 organizations are targeted in targeted attacks.

Q: Is there information about file sizes used during the attacks?
A: Yes. The size is 397,312 bytes.
Update: The size can be anything between 49,152 and 417,792 bytes.

Q: How the user can notify the infection?
A: It is reported that the command prompt will appear.

Q: What are the names of malwares exploiting this vulnerability?
A: There are reports about a data collecting Trojan (Gimmiv.A) and a Trojan searching for non-patched machines on LAN (Arpoc.A).

The following names are being used (listed in alphabetical order):
AhnLab - Dropper/Gimmiv.397312 since 2008.10.24.04
Authentium - W32/Gimmiv.A since 23rd Oct
Avira - TR/Dldr.Agent.gcx since 24th Oct, iVDF 7.00.07.81
Bitdefender - Win32.Worm.Gimmiv.A since since 23rd Oct
- dropper detected as Win32.Worm.Gimmiv.B
CA - Win32/Gimmiv.A since eTrust 31.6.6167
ClamAV - Trojan.Gimmiv since 8524
- Trojan.Gimmiv-1…Trojan.Gimmiv-7 since 8526
Dr.Web - DLOADER.PWS.Trojan since 23rd Oct
Eset - Win32/Gimmiv.A since 24th Oct, v.3551
- Win32/Spy.Gimmiv, Win32/Spy.Gimmiv.A since v.3553
- Win32/Spy.Gimmiv.B since v.3555
Fortinet - W32/Gimmiv.A!tr.spy
- name change: W32/Gimmiv.A!worm since 9.676
F-Secure - Trojan-Spy:W32/Gimmiv.A since 2008-10-24_01
- Trojan-Spy:W32/Gimmiv.B since 2008-10-24_05
- Trojan-Spy:W32/Gimmiv.C, D, E, F variants since 2008-10-24_08
- Net-Worm.Win32.Gimmiv.a since 25th Oct 2008-10-25_01
McAfee - PWS.y!C91DA1B9 since DAT5413
- Spy-Agent.da since 23rd Oct, DAT5414, its DLL component detected as Spy-Agent.da.dll
Microsoft - TrojanSpy:Win32/Gimmiv.A[.dll] since 23rd Oct
- since 24th Oct update 1.4005 included signatures
- exploit: Exploit:Win32/MS08067.gen!A
Kaspersky - Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.alce since 24th Oct, 7.0.0.125
Panda Security – detected as ‘Suspicious file’ since 23rd Oct, 9.0.0.4
- Gimmiv.A since 24th Oct
PCTools - Trojan-Spy.Gimmiv.A
Prevx - detected as ‘Cloaked Malware‘
Rising - Trojan.Spy.Win32.Undef.z since 23rd Oct, 21.00.32.00
Sophos - Sus/Dropper-A since 21st Aug (based to heuristic techniques)
- additionally Troj/Gimmiv-A, IDEs since 4.34.0,
- Troj/Gimmiv-Gen since 4th Nov
Symantec - Infostealer since 23rd Oct
- name change: Trojan.Gimmiv.A since 24th Oct, rev. 024
- malicious files detected as Bloodhound.Exploit.212
Trend Micro - WORM_GIMMIV.A since 5.617.00
- TSPY_GIMMIV.A since 5.617.00

where ’2008.10.24.04’ states that these virus signatures or newer include a protection for the malware.

Alias names CVE-2008-4250, W32.Slugin.A and W32/NetAPI32.RPC!exploit.M20084250 are in use too.

Update: Added Arpoc section:
BitDefender - Win32.Worm.Gimmiv.B
CA - Win32/Gimmiv.B since 31.6.6172
Dr.Web - Win32.HLLW.Jimmy.3 since unknown signatures
McAfee - Spy-Agent.da since DAT5414, its DLL component detected as Spy-Agent.da.dll

Update: Added RPC worm section:
AntiVir - TR/Expl.MS08-067.G
BitDefender - Trojan.Downloader.Shelcod.A
ClamAV - Exploit.MS08-067 since 8566
Eset - Win32/Exploit.MS08-067.B, C and D since 3576
F-Secure - worm component as Exploit.Win32.MS08-067.g
- kernel component as Rootkit.Win32.KernelBot.dg
Ikarus - Virus.Exploit.Win32.MS08.067.g
Kaspersky - Exploit.Win32.MS08-067.g since 31th Oct
McAfee - kernel component as KerBot!37E73FFB since DAT5422
Microsoft - Exploit:Win32/MS08067.gen!A
- Trojan:Win32/Wecorl.A
- Trojan:Win32/Wecorl.B
Norman - kernel component as w32/agent.jbvo
Prevx - Worm.KernelBot
Sophos - Mal/Generic-A
- Exp/MS08067-A since 4th Nov
Symantec - W32.Wecorl since 3rd Nov (latest daily certified version) rev. 052
- W32.Kernelbot.A since 3rd Nov (latest daily certified version) rev. 041
Trend Micro - WORM_KERBOT.A since 5.637.00
- WORM_WECORL.A since 5.640.05

Q: What kind of payload this Trojan horse has?
A: This is what the Trojan gathers (according to Microsoft’s document):
*User Name
*Computer Name
*Network Adapters / IP Addresses
*Installed com objects
*Installed programs and installed patches
*Recently opened documents
*Outlook Express and MSN Messenger credentials
*Protected Storage credentials

Q: What kind of Trojan has attacked to the targeted organizations?
A: It is a very sophisticated and dangerous Trojan. It encrypts the data with AES and deletes itself after its operations. Before sending the gathered data to the attacker it reports the AV software of the installation (from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\) as a parameter (BitDefender, Jiangmin, Kingsoft, Kaspersky, Microsoft OneCare, Rising and Trend Micro).

Q: Are there any changes to Windows registry or the file system made by this malware?
A: The following registry key is being modified:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sysmgr
The display name of the service being generated is System Maintenance Service.
The malicious files are being copied to System32\wbem folder including basesvc.dll, syicon.dll, winbase.dll and winbaseInst.exe. NOTE: After being executed the Trojan deletes these files and itself.
Update: According to Arbor Networks the file C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\macnabi.log is being dropped too.

Q: Now I know that my anti-virus software can report computers in my organizations as clean because the Trojan has deleted itself from the system. What are the malicious executables that I can search them and examine logs etc.?
A: There are several names and all of the files has same size mentioned earlier, i.e. 397,312 bytes.
Update: According to McAfee the size varies from 49,152 to 417,792 bytes.

The most common file name is N2.exe. However, file names Nx.exe are widely spreading as well; [x] represents a number from 1 through 9.
The MD5 hash of the one specific N2.exe file in the wild on 23rd Oct is f173007fbd8e2190af3be7837acd70a4.
Update: To list one more the MD5 hash of n5.exe is 24cd978da62cff8370b83c26e134ff4c.

Prevx database knows the following file names too:
15197927.EXE, 00003106.EXE, NVIR/N2.EXE, 18912604.EXE, 54800477.DAT
The format of the file can be NVIR/N3.EXE etc. too.

Q: What type of network connections these malware make?
A: Gimmiv.A sends an ICMP Echo Request packet to multiple IP addresses including the string ”abcde12345fghij6789”.

Q: How can I recognize malicious files spreading RPC worm (Exploit.Win32.MS08-067.g)?
A: The files names reported in the wild are 6767.exe and KernekDbg.exe.

Q: What is the size of these files?
A: The size are various, but many of them are 16,384 bytes long.

Q: What kind of network connections the worm makes and are there any modifications made to Windows registry?
A: It connects to robot.10wrj.com, ls.cc86.info, ls.lenovowireless.net and ls.playswomen.com. Yes, the worm will add the new value to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Licenses and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Google.

Q: Are there any changes to Windows HOSTS file?
A: Yes, the lines
127.0.0.1 dnl-cn1.kaspersky-labs.com
127.0.0.1 alert.rising.com.cn
127.0.0.1 www.mcafee.com
will be added yo the HOSTS file.

Q: Is there CVE name available to this issue?
A: Yes. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has released the following CVE candidate CVE-2008-4250:
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4250

Q: What is the CVSS severity of this vulnerability?
A: The CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) score is 10.0 (High).

Q: Is there a CWE class assigned?
A: The CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) ID of the vulnerability, in turn, is #119, i.e. Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of an Allocated Memory Buffer class:
cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

Q: Is there a CME name available?
A: No. The Common Malware Enumeration (CME) project has not assigned an identifier for these malware.

Q: When exploiting this RPC vulnerability is the authentication needed?
A: On Windows 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003 systems arbitrary code can be run without authentication. On Vista systems the authentication is needed.

Q: What is the vulnerable component?
A: It is netapi32.dll (Net Win32 API DLL). On Windows 2000 SP4 the non-affected version is 5.0.2195.7203, on Windows XP SP3 5.1.2600.5694 and on Vista SP1 there are several 6.0.6000.xxxx versions, see KB958644 for details. The vulnerable Windows API call is NetPathCanonicalize(), in turn.
Secunia has renamed its vulnerability advisory to Windows Path canonicalisation vulnerability. It states that processing directory traversal character sequences in path names enables to send drafted RPC requests to the Server Service.

(c) Juha-Matti Laurio, Finland (UTC +2hrs)
The author has released several Microsoft Office 0-day vulnerability FAQ documents, e.g.
blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/759
and Windows Vector Markup Language vulnerability FAQ’s
blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/640
since 2006.

Revision History:
1.0 25-10-2008 Initial release
1.1 26-10-2008 Updated document and some minor fixes
1.2 26-10-2008 Major updates to Trojan section, added credits, information of non-affected dll versions and Snort rule reference
1.3 27-10-2008 Added information about the various file names and sizes, a separate Arpoc section and Nessus plugin reference and [UPDATED] to the title
1.4 27-10-2008 Several virus description release dates and ID’s added, updated the summary to clarify the characteristics of the exploitation
1.5 28-10-2008 Added Microsoft Security Advisory #958963 link
1.6 29-10-2008 Added names to Arpoc Trojan section
1.7 03-11-2008 Updated the exploit/PoC section and added information about the worm exploiting the vulnerability
1.8 04-11-2008 Added names to RPC worm section, updated the summary
1.9 05-11-2008 Added information about Windows HOSTS file modification and new worm names

Credits: Microsoft, AV vendors, Prevx Malware Center

Where would it be better to attack then where all the people trust each other?
A single individual or a group of individuals of which tracks lead to Turkish people and Chinese hosting or Chinese partners is spreading viruses though infected files and setup installations shared in vBulletin forums. It seems these individuals have a registration bot with captcha bypass mechanism for vBulletin 3.7.xx versions (may be other versions too) and they are using it to spread all kinds of malware.

I first found this when examining another Kaspersky 2009 installation located at:
http://www.httpshare.net/%E4%E5%F8%E3%E5%FA-%FA%E5%EB%F0%E5%FA-%7C-software-download/427522-kaspersky-antivirus-2009-full-34-p-ece-test-key-no-problem.html

The username spreading this message is “hakan_72_123″ and with a simple google search we can see:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ahe%3Aofficial&hs=sgc&q=hakan_72_123&btnG=Search

Hakan is not very shy to use the bot with his own name, go figure maby he is infecting thousands of forums manually?!
Anyway he in www.vbhackers.com/members/hakan_72_123/ which explains a lot

So what did he do? he took the time to upload Kaspersky 2009 to
http://rapidshare.com/files/115362254/Kaspersky_2009_Full_Sueruem_by_hakan.rar

Well I just checked and it has been 2 month since I found it and the bad guy extended the business for torrents too, this is the same virus under the title “Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Full + Key [App][www.zonatorrent.com] “:
http://isohunt.com/download/44622492/kaspersky.torrent

Inside the rar there is a txt file with the text:

1- program demo deðil full sürümdür.

2- key girmek için þu sýrayý takip et
license-merge-activate using key-brovse= buradan keyleri
çýkarttýðýn klasörü seçip listenin en altýndakin üzerine çýft týklayýp
keyi gir.

HAZIRLAYAN: Hakan

www.avrasyaforum.net

What they did is instead of the standard shared .msi file, they put a WinRAR self-extracting archive with an icon of an msi file. They made the archive so that WinRar’s shell extension doesn’t recognize it as extractable. Once executed it drops a file called svchost.exe in “%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\” which is a refreshing path to drop a trojan downloader in
It executes the svchost.exe (compressed with MiniPE) which then executes
the trojan downloaded to %temp%\wmoptimizer.dll using rundll32.exe:

rundll32.exe “%temp%\wmoptimizer.dll”, RunSetup_Install

svchost.exe uses the classic URLDownloadToFileW and ShellExecuteW to download and execute: http://loansquotesinsurance.com/f/Resident.bin

These is the whois information for http://loansquotesinsurance.com:

Registration Service Provided By: Chinese DQ Network Tech Corp.
Contact: xixipai@hotmail.com

Domain name: loansquotesinsurance.com

Registrant Contact:
Shawn Lee
Shawn Lee

B-902,Zhongxing Huayuan,No.1102,Zhongshan Dadao,Tianhe Distr
Guang Zhou, Guangdong 510660
CN

Administrative Contact:
Shawn Lee
Shawn Lee (webmasters@loansquotesinsurance.com)
+86.02033875805
Fax: +86.02033875805
B-902,Zhongxing Huayuan,No.1102,Zhongshan Dadao,Tianhe Distr
Guang Zhou, Guangdong 510660
CN

Technical Contact:
Shawn Lee
Shawn Lee (webmasters@loansquotesinsurance.com)
+86.02033875805
Fax: +86.02033875805
B-902,Zhongxing Huayuan,No.1102,Zhongshan Dadao,Tianhe Distr
Guang Zhou, Guangdong 510660
CN

The email xixipai@hotmail.com also registers “http://3290.com”

Registration Service Provided By: Chinese DQ Network Tech Corp.
Contact: xixipai@hotmail.com

Domain name: 3290.com

Administrative Contact:
Chinese DQ Network Tech Corp.
Ren XiaoFeng (xixipai@hotmail.com)
+1.05306260800
Fax: +299.05306260803
ZhongHuaDonglu 1038hao
HeZe, 274000
CN

Technical Contact:
Chinese DQ Network Tech Corp.
Ren XiaoFeng (xixipai@hotmail.com)
+1.05306260800
Fax: +299.05306260803
ZhongHuaDonglu 1038hao
HeZe, 274000
CN

Registrant Contact:
Chinese DQ Network Tech Corp.
Ren XiaoFeng

ZhongHuaDonglu 1038hao
HeZe, 274000
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Well this is the part where I can only say, if you are reading this and in some kind of cyber police, DO SOMETHING!!!

The last posts clearly show It is well known that static virus detection is not something AV vendors do well enough. Now this one is quite a story. As I was researching many trojans I was moving files into and out of my Virtual PC machine used to test viruses. My computer has kaspersky 2009 installed and running with maximum security settings (including keyloggers and kernel object modifications).

I accidentally executed without noticing on my host PC one of the samples I was testing in the VM. I was using my computer as usual and I began noticing some kind of tiny delays when typing a lot of text, the kind of delays I was experiencing when I first wrote my first keylogger. I was completely surprised to have this suspicious since I felt “almost safe” with my updating every 4 hours Kaspersky 2009.

Opening “Process Explorer” I began examining the running processes and noticed some wiered dll files running in all my processes.
kbdth2sys.dll
kbdvntcapi.dll
They were in system32 and these are the AV test results for these 2 files day (also 2 month ago):

I was surprised by two things:
1) Kaspersky Anti-Keylogger “live protection” compromised all my personal information
2) Symantec was the only AV really detecting this and as a keylogger, which is very funny because their AV is a joke, I will send a few posts about that later

I can’t believe this! I am now uploading the files again to virustotal to see the updated scan results for today and i notice this:

The file was first received by virustotal in 2007.10.23 which is 1 year ago!!!!!!!!!
This only proves us 2 things:
1) The malicious code writers WERE INDEED using virustotal’s “don’t distribute samples to AV vendors” which was lately removed!
2) All Anti-Viruses didn’t detect this wide spread keylogger which is used to steal peoples information for THE LAST YEAR!!!

I here by thank the creator of the matrix for letting me find it on my PC after just 2 days.
Here are today’s result for kbdth2sys.dll:
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/ae172aaf34a59733d149476e4b4bcb9c

So after 1 YEAR it has been undetected and 2 MONTH after the AV vendors got my uploaded samples we get this amazing 10 of 36 result which leaves it undetected for: Kaspersky, DrWeb, McAfee, BitDefender, Microsoft, Panda, F-Secure, Fortinet and others…

As for kbdvntcapi.dll after all this, detection hasn’t really changed, 4 heuristic detections and 1 symantec keylogger detection, still a sad story (at least for most people
http://www.virustotal.com/he/analisis/d51626cb8f0b04219b0ad4c010036f0d

Well, I uninstalled my kaspersky 2009

Lately I have seen many web downloads, some at forums and some at rapidshare and also a few torrents such as “Adobe Acrobat 9″ that include installation and a crack.
The installation or crack is in a password protected rar file that in order to get the password, one must run the suppled tool called “XXX Password Generator”.

This installs another variant of the AntiVirus 2008, I can truly say I can’t tell anymore if it comes from the same guys, ok of course it’s them but there is just no way they got so much man power to write so many completely different versions!!!
Here are the websites it pops up to purchase from:

Installs executables at:
%ProgramFiles%\Antivirus 2008\Antivirus-2008.exe
which is today detected by 24 of 36 AV vendors
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/5ca67e83d763a44d2719de3c40ab0086

This virus adds a scary DANGER! iframe to your desktop.htt, who would remove this for you?

It installed some dlls and executables which are very known to AVs:
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/3ed55959b67a666973798fa0c35f23f5
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/c44ccd7ef6b11f700a52042bdb09057f
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/ee13a4586807956432b3989534febf60
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/2af01563b34916780ac23799ec1368df
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/0e309871a713b62a6e68a0071ac54b06
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/1f5371eb356e9c893c3dbec8b496641b
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/0d012def38cd3adfe5ada8d7c45b3041
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/0d9eacd2a5c15fb03a91f2b044000bc3
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/bbef207525a04ba4152509a1e458d1e4

There is as another variant I found called “AntiMalwareGuard_Free.exe” packed with PECompact 2.xx, this is considered detected relatevly to the other variants 19 of 36 AV vendors detect it.
http://www.virustotal.com/en/analisis/c0b7c0498a9b0f684f9e3cbbcc0e5b53

So where is the problem???
The Troajn Downloader it self wasn’t detected by any vendor and now 2 month after I found it (which means the vendors got the samples from my virustotal file upload 2 month ago), now it is detected by only 15 AV vendors!!!
http://www.virustotal.com/he/analisis/a38ab04057b44c6bd870ef0446a19a5e
Kaspersky! McAfee! TrendMicro! Panda! F-Secure! Fortinet! Where are you people?!?!?!?!

The malicious guys have no problem replacing the executables at the server side to avoid detection, they even have the man power to write completely new ones.

You probably know by now about the fake Anti-Virus that is planted everywhere to fool people into buying it, go figure maby it will self update some day and will start stealing bank accounts…
I can’t believe we have come to this to point where it is so spread and has so much different domains and versions and nobody stops them!!!

The internet needs some kind of global FBI to keep control over these criminals!!!
These guys operate from Russia and they are the “180 Solutions” team (i proove it below) which shows everyone that a criminal business in the internet is profitable and grows over the last 5 years, at least if its running from a country safe for cyber criminals (Russia!!!)

These is a wide viral network and they check for existence of any of their products, I saved the list of internet explorer blocked/trusted they look here: http://theinsider.deep-ice.com/evilnetwork.txt

So they infect us through cracks and software installations (fake setups, SFX, exe binding) and p2p (torrent, emule) and of course OS and browser exploits through warez websites.
Still, something is missing… it’s working too well this time! well get this!!

Please join my experiment, let’s assume someone just opens google and wants to download the mp3 of the Sopranos T.V series titled “you got yourself a gun”, so he should search “download mp3 sopranos got yourself a gun”, you can test it yourself:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=iw&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ahe%3Aofficial&hs=X1V&q=download+mp3+sopranos+got+yourself+a+gun&btnG=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9&meta=

Last week result number three was:

Sopranos Theme Song
You woke up this morning Got yourself a gun, Complete Guide to Entertaining - Sopranos Stile! Entertaining with The Sopranos May 25, 2008 Download Sopranos …
www.geocities.com/owhfmqhoqxu/sopranos-theme-song.html - 13k

Now result number six is :

mas woemns rights woems woemsn bottle opener woen woen am woen of …
… up this morning got yourself a woke up this morning got yourself a gun woke … sopranos woke up this morning mp3 woke up this morning mp3 sopranos woke …
http://hauton.net/2/2289/ - 35k

One can clearly see that last week result is very very convincing and the new one is also similar to a way a warez/mp3 website would appear in google, this leads directly to a page with auto download offering of this fraud virus.

1) Why isn’t this blocked by google who “maps all the evil pages in the world”?!
2) Google search engine is helping the bad guys to publish their virus in the top 10 results!

This issue goes way beyond searching for downloads, I even got it seaching people:
http://vivocurtindo.com.br/galeriaa/css/_images/toyota-tazz-wiring/my_searched_keyword1-my_searched_keyword2-home.html

This viral network is so large I truly believe only government power can stop it.
Some of the endless domains they use to spread this virus:
http://hauton.net/
http://www.geocities.com/owhfmqhoqxu/
http://scan.av2008check.com/100567/5/
http://dnld.av2008dl.com/load/setup_100567_4_.exe
http://antivirus-2008pro.com/scanner.php?aff=DB
http://antivir–2008.com/buy.php?aff=1001
http://antimalwareguardpro.com/2009/12/?cmpname=cspffxamg&a=cspamg&l=160&f=cs_189355130&ax=1&ed=2&h=10&ex=5&eu=http%3A%2F%2Fad2cash.net%2F%3Fcmpname%3Dcsppcpc%26a%3Dcsp_amex%26l%3D160%26f%3Dcs_189355130&al=&sub=csp&mt_info=6278_0_25073&rdr=1
http://top-pc-scanner.com/1/?xx=1&in=2&ag=2&end=1&g=1&affid=312&lid=1#
http://scan.free-antispyware-scanner.com/100567/4/?q=
http://dnld.getavxp.com/load/setup_100567_4_.exe
http://thefreescanner.com/4913144/1/1/
http://scanner.vav-x-scanner.com/36/?advid=0000004683
http://scanner.ms-scanner.com/35/?advid=0000004683

b.t.w its extremely intelligent to create a “virus not considered as a virus” and spread it as a fraud software which no law enforcement cares about and then once its planted in millions of computers just update it to do steal you want and then even change it back…combination of a breach in the law and in the way viruses are treated by the AV industry.

Before I start this one, I must say I never thought of myself as a blogger.
I was always reading other people’s blog thinking they try to be “I am cool I have a blog” kind of people. Well, I just think the malicious stuff I see everyday should be shared with YOU

At these times, torrents are currently the world’s most active network for file sharing. The current windows version is always One of the most shared files and therefore crime follows there

I recently decided to put it to the test and downloade the most “seeded” file I found, which was “Windows XP Pro.Corp. Edition SP3 June 2008 Update + SATA Driver”, this is still one of the most shared files. Of course I scanned it using the latest fully updated version of Kaspersky 2009 and Dr.Web which according to my test, are currently the best detectors on the market. Well, nothing was found…

So I load the iso, the AutoRun executes and I just “feel” something is wrong!! I look at Process Explorer and I see a process called “file.exe”…hmmmmm….
I figured out that the bad guys replaced the original “setup.exe” with a silent self extract WinRar installation with the original setup icon, it extracts a Trojan Downloader called file.exe and the original setup.exe to the temp directory and executes both the Trojan and the original setup (with CurrentDirectory as the winrar install path).

Here is a scan of the malicious “setup.exe” (today, 2 month after I found this) installer:

I said O.K maby they didn’t go through the trouble marking the “Installer”, but they did all detect the Trojan Downloader, right?

Well, they didn’t
This is really funny to see that all you need to be “a top notch” malicious software is to just download WinRar and NIST (NullSoft Installation System) and create a windows xp sp3 installation torrent, this is after 20 years of Anti-Virus security techonology by 7 billion dollar a year market.

More funny stuff! the author of this virus was so lazy he just put a list the relative path to the real setup executable of all the software he will infect and share in the internet so the “setup.exe” he made will now try to execute a list of files which only one should exist on your infected download
Some Examples:
\Game\wws98.exe
\WinRoute.exe
\GAME\LBWIN.EXE
\vs.exe
\Pandora.exe

Be aware of what you download! it seems the best way to tell if its an infected setup is to right click setup.exe and see if WinRar suggests “Extract To” (I am joking of course)
The executed “file.exe” downloaded http://www.cxgr.com/3913574.exe which is also a NIST file and also a Trojan Downloader and my upload was the first time it was scanned in virustotal and you can guess the results:
Whats really annoying me in this result is that the 3-4 Anti-Viruses that “supply a solution” above and detect the downloader DOES NOT DETECT THE CONSTANT FILE IT DOWNLOADS which means all the malware creator needs to do is modify the downloader or use a new one and there he goes again infecting the entire planet and getting away with it!

Now “3913574.exe” downloaded http://www.cxgr.com/Setup_ver1.1400.0.exe
Which is not packed by a known packer and even isn’t identified as having a “packed entropy” by PEiD. Its a small application compiled by ms vc++ 7/8, 72kb.
Its import table it quite limited and it calls GetProcAddress to get:
SetProcessPriorityBoost, WriteFile, GetEnvironmentVariableA, InternetOpenA, ExitProcess, GetTempPathA, InternetCloseHandle, CloseHandle, TerminateProcess, CreateFileA, DeleteFileA,SHChangeNotify, lstrcpyA, lstrcpyn, InternetGetConnectedState, GetAdaptersInfo
SetThreadPriority, GetModuleFileNameA, Sleep, ShellExecuteEx, InternetOpenUrlA

Of course the strings are not plaintext and its also not XOR, how refreshing!!! its a nice code that identified a header byte and multiples the bytes with a word per this header, may be it is some kind of little compression.
Now more then 10 executables are downloaded into your system, some are detected by some AV’s and some are not, they are packed with Armadillo v1.71 and some with ASPack v2.12
http://www.virustotal.com/he/analisis/7e8af73b605c1c82d0d990d204e12559
http://www.virustotal.com/he/analisis/f60edd90989cd53b73dfedd4df4d3aec
http://www.virustotal.com/he/analisis/6f0ab356e2bd80d4845fdb5ebbe619e1
http://www.virustotal.com/he/analisis/11232e1cf52a2c68b4f28815e7eedb60

These executables are saved in:
%programfiles%\MicroAV

• MicroAV.exe

%windir%\PCHealthCenter

• 1.exe, 2.exe, 3.exe, 4.exe, 5.exe, 7.exe

and of course to %windir%\system32

• MicroAV.cpl, apgambly.dll, biqwetjd.dll and three dlls with names of a 8 random [a-zA-Z0-9] string

About 5-6 entries are added to registry->Run to load the processes that bug you in the system tray. This home made looking trojan is much more advanced then it appears to be…
Clearly these evil guys are advancing and they don’t stop at loading from registry->Run
they start using advanced loading methods such as registering as Authentication Packages to be loaded inside LSA and as logon notification dlls to be loaded inside winlogon.exe(which is one of the best places to be in since it cannot be terminated)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\yayxuSIb]
“Asynchronous”=dword:00000001
“DllName”=”yayxuSIb.dll”
“Impersonate”=dword:00000000
“Logon”=”o”
“Logoff”=”f”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Lsa]
“Authentication Packages”=hex(7):6d,00,73,00,76,00,31,00,5f,00,30,00,00,00,43,\
00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,49,00,4e,00,44,00,4f,00,57,00,53,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,\
73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6c,00,6a,00,4a,00,44,00,57,00,4d,\
00,64,00,41,00,00,00,00,00

Not so long ago, I found one of the most bizzar bugs. It seems there is some kind of bug in the parsing of the command line read from the registry for filetype handled by explorer.exe. This was checked on Windows XP SP3 but I guess it existent in SP2 too. This bug allows controlling the icon which appears in the “Open File - Security Warning” Dialog for all the executables downloaded from the internet.

Each time you download a file from the internet/intranet to a drive with NTFS file system an ADS (Alternate Data Stream) ini file which is called “Zone.Identifier” is created. This hidden ini file specifies the zone file came from, this can be the internet or the local network (intranet).

You can see it using the following in cmd:

“more < exe_from_internet.exe:Zone.Identifier”

The ini will be printed to the screen:
[ZoneTransfer]
ZoneId=3

When you “click” (shellexecute) a file which his handler is explorer.exe then the Zone.Identifier is checked and if the zone is 3 (internet) the following screen appears:

Well it appears that each time you try to open an executable that came from the internet, the icon that will appear in this dialog will be parsed from an executable file called “.exe” or “%1″ in any directory of the “PATH” environment variable for the user running explorer.exe, for example:

c:\.exe
c:\windows\.exe

you can create such a file using “cmd /c type c:\windows\system32\calc.exe > c:\windows\.exe”
or write a code to use CreateFile

The file request is FASTIO_NETWORK_QUERY_OPEN and the icon is cached in memory until explorer.exe process is terminated. If you want to further explore this case, here is the call stack:

First time in the history of Anti-Phishing Working Group (aka APWG) the number of phishing reports received and new phishing sites discovered decreased at the end of period (i.e. Mar ‘08).

But don’t say “We won the race - at last” yet. The number of crimeware-spreading URLs rose to a new record.
Nothing special when digging the statistics of top hosting countries - U.S., China, Russia, etc. But hey, France is listed too.

And link to the recently released Q1 Phishing Trends Report (pdf) here.