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Re: More information on the rule - sid:31557


From: Irish Settingg <irishsetting () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:50:11 +0530

Is the rev number 4 for this rule ....the new one

On 30 January 2015 at 03:36, Joel Esler (jesler) <jesler () cisco com> wrote:

We’ve just released a new version of this rule, I suggest an update to the
ruleset.

That being said, please see below.

On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Irish Settingg <irishsetting () gmail com>
wrote:

Signature - BLACKLIST USER-AGENT known malicious user-agent string -
Mozilla/5.0 - Win.Trojan.Upatre.

The previous rule was -

Rev 2: alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS
(msg:"BLACKLIST USER-AGENT known malicious user-agent string - Mozilla/5.0
- Win.Backdoor.Andromeda"; flow:to_server,established; content:"/2507US-1/";
http_uri; content:"User-Agent|3A| Mozilla/5.0|0D 0A|"; fast_pattern:5,20;
nocase; http_header; metadata:policy balanced-ips drop, policy security-ips
drop, service http; reference:url,
www.virustotal.com/en/file/51b3f93d8ebd83fb01306c8797f50b01d14d2c0c9d861782dcca4b4dfbf80cc3/analysis/;
classtype:trojan-activity; sid:31557; rev:2; )


The current rule is-


Rev 3: alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS
(msg:"BLACKLIST USER-AGENT known malicious user-agent string - Mozilla/5.0
- Win.Trojan.Upatre"; flow:to_server,established; content:"User-Agent|3A|
Mozilla/5.0|0D 0A|"; fast_pattern:5,20; nocase; http_header;
metadata:impact_flag red, policy balanced-ips drop, policy security-ips
drop, service http; reference:url,
www.virustotal.com/en/file/51b3f93d8ebd83fb01306c8797f50b01d14d2c0c9d861782dcca4b4dfbf80cc3/analysis/;
classtype:trojan-activity; sid:31557; rev:3; )

Please tell us the reason of change in Contents-


The URI was removed as it deals with a specific campaign and country (see
the 2507US?  2507 = campaign number for the malware install, US =
country).  So that doesn’t do us any good if we want to detect all the
variants that user that User-Agent.


Win.Trojan.Upatre as per multiple websites doesnot do anything wherein
it hides or strips the User-agent (Though I am sure it could have the
option of doing it)
Connections observed in the network is from internal machine to -
http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/favicon.ico or


http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.20/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.20.vbox-extpack


The only part which is suspicious is the user agent -


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
I have not seen any browser to strip down the user agent in such a way
that only the Platform is visible.

Normal User agents are -

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)


The whole User Agent that Upatre uses (in this example, there are a bunch
of different user agents that Upatre uses), is Mozilla/5.0, which, as you
indicate above, is not a *real* “browser-based” user-agent.



Long story short, update the ruleset, we just released an update.

--
*Joel Esler*
Open Source Manager
Threat Intelligence Team Lead
Talos



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