RE: [unisog] Winupdate2date.exe: New worm variant? ( The Answer)

Eric Peters <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.intrusions
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I personally think it has to do with the story on /. And The Register about
a new spam E-mail circulating which has a 'Click here to remove' link which
launches to a site, (www.xcelent.biz) that site has on it a drag-drop
javascript exploit; so when the user scrolls the page, it downloads
windows-update32.exe (which I have open in a hex editor now). This only
affects the millions of unpatched windows computers and people who use IE
(internet exploder) There is a slew of other sites on that same server
according to Webhosting Info that also have that exploit, some with
windows-update.exe and others with windows-update32.exe

The windows-update32.exe also references a site earthlabs.biz trying to use
http get command to download ProxyBot? But that site has no DNS. More info
later when I get time to go through the exe.


host www.xcelent.biz
www.xcelent.biz has address 61.218.79.53
host 61.218.79.53
53.79.218.61.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
61-218-79-53.HINET-IP.hinet.net

And people wonder why I want to firewall 60/7

Cheers,

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson Johnston [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:00 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [unisog] [Intrusions] Winupdate2date.exe: New worm variant? (The
Answer)


Jim Supplee of the College of William and Mary pointed me to a posting at
www.cyberdefender.com.  It's a new worm and here's hoping the anti-virus
vendors get the new signatures out soon..


Thanks to all the respondents!

							- Andy


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