Sunday, November 18, 2007

The "New Media" Malware Gang

Since Possibility Media's Malware Fiasco, I've been successfully tracking the group behind the malware embedded attack at each and every online publication of Possibility Media. Successfully tracking mostly because of their lack of interest in putting any kind of effort of making them harder to trace back, namely, maintaining a static web presence, but one with diversifying set of malware and exploits used. Possibility Media's main IFRAME used was 208.72.168.176/e-Sr1pt2210/index.php, and at 208.72.168.176 we have a great deal of parked domains in standby mode such as :

repairhddtech.com
granddslp.net
prevedltd.net
stepling.net
softoneveryday.com
samsntafox.com
himpax.com

grimpex.org
trakror.org
dpsmob.com
besotrix.net
gotizon.net
besttanya.com
carsent.com
heliosab.info
gipperlox.info
leader-invest.net
fiderfox.info
potec.net

However, the latest IPs and domains related to the group are dispersed on different netblocks and are actively serving malware through exploit URLs :

78.109.16.242/us3/index.php
x-victory.ru/forum/index.php (85.255.114.170)
asechka.cn/traff/out.php (78.109.18.154)
trafika.info/stools/index.php (203.223.159.92)

What's so special about this group? It's the connection with the Russian Business Network. As I've already pointed out, the malware attack behind Possibility Media's was using IPs rented on behalf of RBN customers from their old netblock, here are two such examples of RBN IPs used by this group as well :

81.95.149.236/us3/index.php
81.95.148.162/e202/

In case you also remember, some of this group's URLs were also used as communication vehicle with a downloader that was hosted on a RBN IP, that very same RBN IP that was behind Bank of India's main IFRAME. Now that's a mutually beneficial malicious ecosystem for both sides. Here are more comments on other ecosystems.

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