Re: Malware database

Take a look at www.virustotal.com you can search hashes, names, etc...


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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Jay Scalf <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 1/17/2011 9:24 AM, Martin, Kelly J. wrote:
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>> How do I get off this list?
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>> On Jan 17, 2011, at 10:24 AM, "Graham Scrowther"<[email protected]>
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>>> I didn't get anything either.
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>>> Could you please post the message you got?
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]=
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>>> On Behalf Of Sandeep Cheema
>>> Sent: 17 January 2011 14:25
>>> To: Jay Scalf ; [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Malware database
>>>
>>> That's odd. Seriously. I thought all securityfocus mailing lists are
>>> manually filtered. Strange I didn't receive that.
>>>
>>> Regards, Sandeep
>>> Sent from BlackBerry=AE on Airtel
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jay Scalf<[email protected]>
>>> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:08:50
>>> To:<[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: Malware database
>>>
>>> This is to notify all that I received a message regarding my supposed
>>> request of Mastercard via this list. I do no have a Mastercard. Everyon=
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>>> beware. If this happens again I will request to be removed form the lis=
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>>> even though everyone seems knowledgeable and I appreciate reading your
>>> views.
>>>
>>> On 1/14/2011 3:23 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I agree with this assertion.
>>>>
>>>> Malware encyclopedias are NOT what they used to be 7~10 years ago.
>>>>
>>>> New variants of malware are created daily and often hourly. =A0So ofte=
n
>>>> that encyclopedias (librariies) just can't be
>>>> kept up to date.
>>>>
>>>> At best we can talk about families such as MEBRoot, TDSS (TDL3, TDL4,
>>>> etc), ZBot, Gromozon, FakeAV,
>>>> FakeAlert, yada, yada. =A0And in that we can have generalities about h=
ow
>>>> the malware conducts itself and what
>>>> changes it makes to the OS.
>>>>
>>>> As for ThreatExpert. =A0It is just OK. =A0I use it but, I find that da=
ta
>>>> colleected is often incomplete. =A0Especially in light
>>>> of the AntiVM routines of much of the malware I see. =A0ANUBIS the sam=
e
>>>> and it can't handle .NET files. =A0COMODO
>>>> is limited and supplies very little information. =A0The University of
>>>> Manaheim's sandbox is very good but it is
>>>> presently down and won't be back up until the third or 4th week of thi=
s
>>>> month. =A0Stefan B. has an excellent system
>>>> but it is underfunded and underpowered and I am afraid if I mention hi=
s
>>>> system you will all use it and it will get
>>>> overloaded and it'll take days to get reports returned.
>>>>
>>>> We return back to the original question about 'srvpool.exe'.
>>>>
>>>> Google is ONLY good to tell you if it is a known process. =A0However, =
any
>>>> file can be named anything. =A0It isn't
>>>> enough to know the name of the file but the fully qualified name and
>>>> path to the file.
>>>>
>>>> We know SVCHOST.EXE is a legitimate process.
>>>> Not if it is loaded from %appdata%.
>>>>
>>>> Malware deliberately hides itsalf in names of legitimate files or slig=
ht
>>>> variation thereof.
>>>> SVCHOST.EXE is the most prevalent of names forged or use variations li=
ke
>>>> SCVHOST.EXE or LSASS.EXE as
>>>> Isass.exe. =A0Here we have 'srvpool.exe' which is a take on 'spoolsv.e=
xe'
>>>> the Print Spooler Service. =A0The problem is
>>>> any file can be called anything and the libraries are just not able to
>>>> keep up with all the new malware.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Get me a sample of 'spoolsv.exe' and I'll get the 411 on this. =A0:-)
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Date forwarded: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:26:47 -0700 (MST)
>>>> Date sent: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:24:33 -0500 (ES=
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>>>> Forwarded by: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0focus-virus-return-3806@securityfocus=
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>>>> From: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Jose Nazario<[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Re: Malware database
>>>> To: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Huffen Doback<huffen.doback=
@gmail.com>
>>>> Copies to: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 [email protected],
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>>>>
>>>>> virus names used to be unique, but not so much any more.
>>>>>
>>>>> prevx, for example, lets you search by filename. plenty of sites have
>>>>> nice
>>>>> writeups of "what is file foo.exe and what does it do?" for legitimat=
e
>>>>> files. prevx mostly handles malicious files, and their writeups are
>>>>> vague
>>>>> or misleading at best in that database.
>>>>>
>>>>> as for fine grained details sandbox reports are very useful.
>>>>> threatexpert.com is one of the more comprehensive and searchable. if
>>>>> you
>>>>> have a file hash (md5) that's the best way to get such details.
>>>>>
>>>>> virustotal.com is also a useful place to get pointers.
>>>>>
>>>>> i do not trust or respect most AV writeups, they're very inadequate o=
r
>>>>> just plain wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> ________
>>>>> jose nazario, ph.d. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://monkey.org/~jos=
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