Re: Logon.dll? Possible root-kit?

["Nick Jacobsen" <nick () ethicsdesign com>]

I'm sorry, the archive was meant for the people who had wanted to decompile
the r_bot.dll IRC bot.  I have already determined that it was not a
rootkit...  as to the logs, those were the only logs, as IIS was only
running for those days, oddly enough.  I have, using some slightly
convoluted methods, determined that the attack originated through an old IIS
box that the system administrator was not aware of.  The attacker used that
box, using double decode, to add himself an account on a terminal server
box, upon which he then proceded to install the botkit, and some other
utilities.

Nick Jacobsen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harlan Carvey" <keydet89 () yahoo com>
To: <incidents () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Logon.dll? Possible root-kit?


> Nick,
>
> I downloaded the archive and went through it.
> Unfortunately, none of the information I asked about
> was in the archive...Registry keys, results of
> fport.exe, etc.
>
> Also, the web logs you included in the archive seem to
> be selected for a specific reason.  Why is that?  What
> did you expect them to show?  One shows a failed Nimda
> scan.
>
> At this point, I don't know that decompiling the DLLs
> are going to do much in the way of helping figure out
> how this occurred, and what to do to prevent it in the
> future.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> --- Nick Jacobsen <nick () ethicsdesign com> wrote:
> > Ok here is link to a rar of the suspected files:
> >     http://www.ethicsdesign.com/HackLog.rar
> >
> > As some of you said, it looks like there is not a
> > rootkit installed, and it
> > looks like this was an attempt at making this box
> > join a botnet.  A kindly
> > IRCOp has offered to both decompile the bot dll, and
> > to remove the offending
> > channel (#thallia), so that is taken care of.
> > Anyway, I did manage to
> > convince my clients that this was serious enough to
> > warant a wipe of the
> > data on the machine.  I am waiting to see what your
> > analysis of these files
> > are.
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Nick Jacobsen
> > nick () ethicsdesign com
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