TorrentReactor.net Serving Crimeware, Client-Side Exploits Through a Malicious Ad

 Deja vu!

Jerome Segura at the Malware Diaries is reporting that TorrentReactor.net, a high-trafficked torrents tracker, is currently serving live-exploits through a malicious ad served by "Fulldls.com  - Your source for daily torrent downloads".

Why deja vu? It's because the TorrentReactor.net malware campaign takes me back to 2008, among the very first extensive profiling of Russian Business Network activity, with their mass "input validation abuse" campaign back then, successfully appearing on numerous high-trafficked web sites, serving guess what? Scareware.

Moreover, despite the surprisingly large number of people still getting impressed by the use of http referrers as an evasive practice applied by the cybercriminals, these particular campaigns (ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor IFRAME-ed; Wired.com and History.com Getting RBN-ed; Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing) are a great example of this practice in use back then:

• So the malicious parties are implementing simple referrer techniques to verify that the end users coming to their IP, are the ones they expect to come from the campaign, and not client-side honeypots or even security researchers. And if you're not coming from you're supposed to come, you get a 404 error message, deceptive to the very end of it.

The most recent compromise of TorrentReactor.net appears to be taking place through a malicioud ad serving exploits using the NeoSploit kit, which ultimately drops a ZeuS crimeware sample hosted within a fast-flux botnet.

The campaign structure, including detection rates, phone back locations and ZeuS crimeware fast-flux related data is as follows:
- ads.fulldls.com /phpadsnew/www/delivery/afr.php?zoneid=1&cb=291476
    - ad.leet.la /stats?ref=~.*ads\.fulldls\.com$ - 208.111.34.38 - Email: bertrand.crevin@brutele.com (leet.la - 212.68.193.197 - AS12392, ASBRUTELE AS Object for Brutele SC)
    - lo.dep.lt /info/us1.html - 91.212.127.110 - lo.dep.lt - 91.212.127.110 - AS49087, Telos-Solutions-AS Telos Solutions LTD
        - 91.216.3.108 /de1/index.php; 91.216.3.108 /ca1/main.php - AS50896, PROXIEZ-AS PE Nikolaev Alexey Valerievich
            - 91.216.3.108 responding to gaihooxaefap.com - Nikolay Vukolov, Email: woven@qx8.ru

Upon successful exploitation, the following malicious pdf is served:
- eac27d.pdf - Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen (v); JS:Pdfka-AET; - Result: 6/40 (15%) which when executed phones back to 91.216.3.108 /ca1/banner.php/1fda161dab1edd2f385d43c705a541d3?spl=pdf_30apr and drops:
- myexebr.exe - TSPY_QAKBOT.SMG - Result: 17/41 (41.47%) which then phones back to the ZeuS crimeware C&C: saiwoofeutie.com /bin/ahwohn.bin - 78.9.77.158 - Email: spasm@maillife.ru

Fast-fluxed domains sharing the same infrastructure:
demiliawes.com - Email: bust@qx8.ru
jademason.com - 213.156.118.221; 217.201.4.95; 24.139.152.4; 83.10.238.182; 85.176.73.211; 112.201.223.129; 119.228.44.124; 170.51.231.93 - Email: blare@bigmailbox.ru
laxahngeezoh.com - 190.135.224.89; 213.156.118.221; 217.201.4.95; 24.139.152.4; 83.10.238.182; 85.176.73.211; 112.201.223.129; 119.228.44.124 - Email: zig@fastermail.ru
line-ace.com - Email: greysy@gmx.com
xareemudeixa.com - 112.201.223.129; 119.228.44.124; 170.51.231.93; 190.135.224.89; 213.156.118.221; 217.201.4.95; 24.139.152.4; 85.176.73.211 - Email: writhe@fastermail.ru
zeferesds.com - 190.135.224.89; 213.156.118.221; 217.201.4.95; 24.139.152.4; 83.10.238.182; 85.176.73.211; 112.201.223.129; 119.228.44.124 - Email: mated@freemailbox.ru

Name servers of notice:
ns1.rexonna.net - 202.60.74.39 - Email: aquvafrog@animail.net
ns2.rexonna.net - 25.120.19.23
ns1.line-ace.com - 202.60.74.39 - Email: greysy@gmx.com
ns2.line-ace.com - 67.15.223.219
ns1.growthproperties.net - 62.19.3.2 - Email: growth@support.net
ns2.growthproperties.net - 15.94.34.196
ns1.tropic-nolk.com - 62.19.3.2 - Email: greysy@gmx.com
ns2.tropic-nolk.com - 171.103.51.158

These particular iFrame injection Russian Business Network's campaigns from 2008, used to rely on the following URL for their malicious purposes - a-n-d-the.com/wtr/router.php (216.255.185.82 - INTERCAGE-NETWORK-GROUP2). Why am I highlighting it? Excerpts from previous profiled campaigns, including one that is directly linked to the Koobface gang's blackhat SEO operations.

U.S Federal Forms Blackhat SEO Themed Scareware Campaign Expanding:

• The compromised/mis-configured web sites participating in this latest blackhat SEO campaign are surprisingly redirecting to a-n-d-the.com /wtr/router.php - 95.168.177.35 - Email: bulk@spam.lv - AS28753 NETDIRECT AS NETDIRECT Frankfurt, DE if the http referrer condition isn't met. This very same domain -- back then parked at INTERCAGE-NETWORK-GROUP2 -- was also used in the same fashion in March, 2008's massive blackhat SEO campaigns serving scareware.

Not only is a-n-d-the.com /wtr/router.php (95.168.177.35) (Web sessions of the URL acting as a redirector), the exact same URL that was in circulating in 2008, residing on the Russian Business Network's netblock back then, still active, but also, it's currently redirecting to -- if the campaign's evasive conditions are met -- to www4.zaikob8.xorg.pl/?uid=213&pid=3&ttl=31345701120 - 217.149.251.12.

What this proves is fairly simple - with or without the Russian Business Network the way we used to know it, it's customers simply moved on to the competition, whereas the original Russian Business Network simply diversified its netblocks ownership.

Related posts:
ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor IFRAME-ed
Wired.com and History.com Getting RBN-ed
Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing

This post has been reproduced from Dancho Danchev's blog. Follow him on Twitter.