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Article #11Re: Why/how does Antivirus 2009 malware popup attach itself to certain links?
From: Dustin Cook
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:16
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:16
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"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in news:3e-dnV4iuIbifMLUnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@giganews.com: > From: "Doc" <docsavage20@yahoo.com> > >| There's a website for a couple of famous jazz trumpeters, the late >| Candoli brothers. > >| h**p://www.candoli.com > >| It's a legitimate site, these guys were icons. There's a photo in >| their gallery of Pete playing wearing a Superman suit. I posted the >| direct link to it in a trumpet forum. > >| h**p://www.candoli.com/pic28.htm > >| Several people reported that clicking the link brought up that >| Antivirus 2009 malware bogus alert. I tried it and got the same >| thing. > >| How does that Antivirus 2009 page hijack attempts to go to other >| sites like that? How does it get attached to certain ones? > >| How is it these people haven't been shut down? > > The site was hacked and is now compramised. It takes you to a > malicious site 78.110.175.21 > > http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5440 > > The malicous site will test the PC for vulneranilities in Adobe Flash, > Adobe Reader and MDAC. > > Successful exploitation will yield a EXE file. > > http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/e8a650fafef32407bb729fdc63f44f78 > > Prevx1 V2 2009.01.03 Information Stealer > Sophos 4.37.0 2009.01.03 Troj/Daonol-Fam > TrendMicro 8.700.0.1004 2009.01.02 PAK_Generic.001 > > Which will drop; %windir%\system32\wdmaud.sys Someone sent us 4 copies of this, all different. It's quite the morphing little turd. > All you can do it was what you did, contact the site owner to get the > site fixed. Yep. -- Regards, Dustin Cook Malware Researcher MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org
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