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Re: Incident Response


From: Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:34:56 -0600

There's another bug on here. Looks like this virus sets up a backdoor from
the compromised system to an IRC channel.
http://anubis.iseclab.org/?action=result&task_id=19da61a862fdf5bb4c56f207beccef8ff&format=html

<http://anubis.iseclab.org/?action=result&task_id=19da61a862fdf5bb4c56f207beccef8ff&format=html>This
looks like the culprit. At least I know what I'm looking for now!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Worm:Win32/Hamweq.E



On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com>wrote:

Not a false positive. Someone used a nasty USB drive that had an autorun
virus on it. The autorun.inf had this in it:


l~-??A?<K??#?Ê??ed?ª?üXÜ??ÁüFl?æ?eëX?r?:M?à???Ñ?çs?Ç?Oü?EF??ëÓ??ÚÞÊN?d=?ú??[Y?????mÈm!Ã???çñvè?y?Êv_????É-/?Is?ù?,[
[autorun
;e???V
open=trikfx/spomenar.exe
;Þm÷?Ç
icon=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,4
;X]doÝ??a
action=Open folder to view files using Windows Explorer
;?ëë$???µ]
shell\\open\\\command=trikfx/spomenar.exe
;Là?ÿÜ??Üü`ásáµ????Dþ?é'?µ??rm?ò?
shell\\explore\\command=trikfx/spomenar.exe
;??àg'æë?
useautoplay=1

VirusTotal for this file:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/e22b8e9b4fbdb876904373e647306a3f0a8d2c5bbb50e708a87464c83c962dba-1277992532


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca> wrote:

On 10-06-30 12:05 PM, Craig Freyman wrote:
When the AV flags a virus, what steps should you take to handle the
situation?

I would assume the following would be important to figure out:
[...]
   - ??

First and foremost: is this a false positive?

Other than that, Josh Little's response is good.

Mike
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