Re: possible new irc worm

From: Paolo Monti (paolo.montiat_private)
Date: Sat Jun 28 2003 - 12:10:04 PDT

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    At 01.52 28/06/2003 -0400, Chris Ess wrote:
    
    >What I've come up with so far is this:
    >
    >The vector appears to be a zip file that contains an HTML file.  The HTML
    >file has, at the beginning of it, a base64-encoded executable of some
    >sort.
    
    Yes, I decoded easily the MIME stuff using WinZip. Here you are a quick & dirty analisys. The file decoded is a Win32 PE executable compressed by UPX: it is a new variant of Backdoor.SdBot, an IRC RAT that permits to malicious people to control PCs where the backdoor has been installed. On execution, the backdoor copies itself on the %Sysdir% folder and modifies the Registry to be executed automatically at every system startup:
    
    Values added: 2
    ---------------
            HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "hpsched"
                    Type: REG_SZ
                    Data: hpsched.exe
            HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices "hpsched"
                    Type: REG_SZ
                    Data: hpsched.exe
    
    I wrote "on the fly" a detection/removal tool, by the way. People interested may download it here:
    
    http://www.nod32.it/cgi-bin/mapdl.pl?tool=Mindjail
    
    ciao,
    Paolo.
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