SecurityRatty: Response Rate for an IM Malware Attack

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Response Rate for an IM Malware Attack

2008-04-29 22:01:52 by HASH0x8ae6b08 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge

Remember the MSN Spamming Bot in action? Consider this screenshot not just as a real-example of IM spamming in action, but also, pay attention to the response rate with the number of messages sent, and response in the form of new malware infected hosts joining an IRC channel. Keeping it Simple Stupid to directly spam the binary locations is still surprisingly working, taking Stormy Wormy's last several campaigns, but with the recent spamming of live exploit URls and malware using Google ads as redirector, for instance :

- google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=dhobOez&num=57486&adurl=http://mpharm.hr/video_233.php
- google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=YQdWjxe&num=81899&adurl=http://www.1-pltnicka.sk/lib_vid.php
- google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=MKRCVFW&adurl=//bestsslscripts.com/goog/online-casino-gambling.html
- google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=Hydrocodone&num=001&adurl=http://hydrocodone.7-site.info

the response rate for the campaign can change in a minute. Go through a related post on "Statistics from a Malware Embedded Attack" taking another perspective into consideration.