Re: Re[2]: Finding which programme started an outgoing connection

[Nikhil Manampady <nikhil.manampady () paladion net>]

Hi Adam,

If you check the properties of the started services like BITS
(Background Intelligent Transfer Service), COM+ event system, Computer
browser, etc, you will see all those services are using svchost.exe so
we cannot confirm that svchosts file is infected if there are muliple
instances of it running.

I am not sure if Windows will allow any of its file to be modifed when
it's using those files, but then a virus and spyware scan of the
entire C: drive should help to clean any virus or malware.




Thanks & Regards,
Nikhil Manampady,
Security Consultant,
Paladion Networks.




On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Adam Pal <pal_adam () gmx net> wrote:
> Hello Nikhil,
>
> There is malware which hides from those 2 points. Take for instance
> the svchost.exe, this process runs in more than 1 instances while it
> is not present neither in HKLM, nor in services.
> Or what if malware inject explorer.exe or services.exe (which are
> common targets), or a .dll they are linking?
> Simple malware still use HKLM or services but lately i havent seen
> any.
> If the system is not rootkited then whatsrunning was a great help to
> me to identify such processes, if its rootkited i doubt there is any
> possibility to find that out...
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Adam Pal
>
> Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 5:32:57 AM, you wrote:
>
> <==============Original message text===============
> NM> Hi Tyler,
>
> NM> Alternatively you can check in the registry whether any program is
> NM> configured to load at startup and connect to that particular IP.
>
> NM> In Windows XP, it was
> NM> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. On
> NM> the right you will see programs which will be loaded at startup. You
> NM> would probably need to check the same in Win 7.
>
> NM> Alternatively check in services.msc whether there are any programs
> NM> which are running which are not required. Maybe stopping some or one
> NM> of them might solve the issue.
>
>
> NM> Thanks & Regards,
> NM> Nikhil Manampady,
> NM> Security Consultant.
>
>
>
>
>
> NM> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler () tysdomain com> wrote:
> > > Have you thought of running netstat? This may be a longshot, but you could create a script that starts on startup 
> > > that checks netstat, or you can start it right as you boot up yourself to see what opens that program.
> > > On 2/5/2011 4:38 AM, Tom Causer wrote:
> > > > Hello List,
> > > >
> > > > This is more of an end user question then anything else:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I use zone alarm on my pc, and it is alerting that some during boot up
> > > > is attempting to connect (UDP) to an IP address in the Netherlands
> > > > 81.171.115.5 (it looks like some colocation service over there).
> > > >
> > > > Now I would like to know how I can track back to find out what service
> > > > is making that connection during boot up, but I have no idea how I
> > > > would go about doing that?   (Other then setting up a hub with my
> > > > desktop and capture in wireshark, which I can do fine, its just the
> > > > analysis of the traffic to find out whats causing it, so I would
> > > > rather not do that step)
> > > >
> > > > Using Windows 7 OS.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Tom
> > > >
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