More High Profile Sites IFRAME Injected
The ongoing monitoring of this campaign reveals that the group is continuing to expand the campaign, introducing over a hundred new bogus .info domains acting as traffic redirection points to the campaigns hardcoded within the secondary redirection point, in this case radt.info where a new malware variant of Zlob is attempting to install though an ActiveX object. These are the high profile sites targeted by the same group within the past 48 hours, with number of locally cached and IFRAME injected pages within their search engines :NCSU Libraries - lib.ncsu.edu - 372,000 pages
FullDownloads.us - fulldownloads.us - 13,000 pages
Central Statistics Office Ireland - cso.ie - 10,300 pages
DBLife Frontpage - dblife.cs.wisc.edu - 1,130 pages
School of Mathematics and Statistics - www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk - 1040 pages
eHawaii Portal - ehawaii.gov - 992 pages
The World Clock - timeanddate.com - 944 pages
Boise State University - boisestate.edu - 471 pages
The U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) - aoa.gov - 425 pages
Gustavus Adolphus College - gustavus.edu - 312 pages
Internet Archive - archive.org - 261 pages
Stanford Business School Alumni Association - gsbapps.stanford.edu - 157 pages
BushTorrent - bushtorrent.com - 147 pages
ChildCareExchange - ccie.com - 131 pages
The University of Vermont - uvm.edu - 120 pages
Hippodrome State Theatre - Gainesville, FL - thehipp.org - 112 pages
Minnesota State University Mankato - mnsu.edu - 94 pages
The California Majority Report - camajorityreport.com - 16 pages
Medicare.gov - medicare.gov - 12 pages
USAMRIID - usamriid.army.mil - 3 pages
This sample of the newly introduced .info domains reside on the same netblock as the previous ones - 75.125.181.0/255 a KISS strategy making it easier to respond to this incident. Best of all, they further expand the campaign since they're injected in plain text, next to javascript obfuscated, this time embedded malware :bhrsaa.info
seivomerutam.info/Free-Paris-Hilton-Nude-Pics/
seivomerutam.info/spam/
all of which ultimately redirect to :
porn-popular.com (64.28.185.78) where the Zlob variant in the face of a fake codec, is downloaded from democodec.com/download/ democodec1292.exe (64.28.184.168) via an Active X object.
Scanner results : 22% Scanner(8/36) found malware!
What this means is that known Russian Business Network netblocks are receiving all the re-routed DNS queries from infected hosts, thereby setting up the foundations for a large scale pharming attack by infecting the weakest link, the end user from the perspective of using rogue DNS servers, a much more effective but noisy approach.
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Dancho Danchev is the world's leading expert in the field of cybercrime fighting and threat intelligence gathering having actively pioneered his own methodlogy for processing threat intelligence leading to a successful set of hundreas of high-quality anaysis and research articles published at the industry's leading threat intelligence blog - ZDNet's Zero Day, Dancho Danchev's Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge and Webroot's Threat Blog with his research featured in Techmeme, ZDNet, CNN, PCWorld, SCMagazine, TheRegister, NYTimes, CNET, ComputerWorld, H+Magazine currently producing threat intelligence at the industry's leading threat intelligence blog - Dancho Danchev's - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge. With his research featured at RSA Europe, CyberCamp, InfoSec, GCHQ and Interpol the researcher continues to actively produce threat intelligence at the industry's leading threat intelligence blog - Dancho Danchev's - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge publishing a diverse set of hundreds of high-quality research analysis detailing the malicious and fraudulent activities at nation-state and malicious actors across the globe.
