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<![CDATA[[SecurityRatty] tag: ukrtelegroup]]> http://securityratty.com/tag/ukrtelegroup Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:12:02 +0000 iRatty Engine http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Seven]]> http://securityratty.com/article/51d3037b3c70ac0a110b0606415c4194 http://securityratty.com/article/51d3037b3c70ac0a110b0606415c4194

In case you haven't heard - Microsoft and the Washington state are suing a U.S based -- naturally -- "scareware" vendor Branch Software :

"We won't tolerate the use of alarmist warnings or deceptive 'free scans' to trick consumers into buying software to fix a problem that doesn't even exist," Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said. "We've repeatedly proven that Internet companies that prey on consumers' anxieties are within our reach."

Sadly, Branch Software is the tip of the iceberg on the top of the affiliates participating in different affiliation based programs, which similar to IBSOFTWARE CYPRUS and Interactivebrands, which I've been tracking down for a while, are the aggregators of scareware that popped up on the radars due to their extensive portfolios. These three companies offering software bundles or plain simple fake software, are somewhere in between the food chain of this ecosystem, with the real vendors paying out the commissions on a per installation basis slowly starting to issue invitation codes that they've distributed only across invite-only forums/sections of particular forums.

Behind these brands is everyone that is participating in the franchise and is putting personal efforts into monetizing the high payout rates that the fake security software vendor is paying for successful installation. These high payout rates -- with the financing naturally coming straight from other criminal activities online -- are in fact so high, that I can easily say that the last two quarters we've witnesses the largest increase of such domains ever, and they're only heating up since the typosquatting possibilities are countless and they seem to know that as well.

It's important to point out that their business model of acquiring traffic is outsourced to all the affiliates that do the blackhat SEO, SQL injections, web sessions hijacking of malware infected hosts in order to monetize, so basically, you have an affiliates network whose actions are directly driving the growth into all these areas. Throwing money into the underground marketplace as a "financial injection", is proving itself as a growth factor, and incentive for innovation on behalf of all the participants.

Here are some of the most recent fake security software domains, a "deja vu" moment with a known RBN domain from a "previous life" that is also parked at one of the servers, and evidence that typosquatting for fraudulent purposes is still pretty active with a dozen of Norton Antivirus related domains, some of which have already started issuing "fake security notices" by brandjacking the vendor for traffic acquisition purposes.

Antivirus-Alert .com (203.117.111.47) where pepato .org a domain that was used in the Wired.com and History.com IFRAME injections, which back in March was also hosted at Hostfresh (58.65.238.59).

softload2008name .com (78.157.143.250)
softload2008nm .com
softload2008n .com
softload2008jq .com

microantivir-2009 .com (91.208.0.223)
scanner.microantivir-2009 .com
microantivir2009 .com
microantivirus-2009 .com
microantivirus2009 .com

ms-scan .com (91.208.0.228)
msscanner .com
ms-scanner .com

Personalantispy .com (93.190.139.197)
freepcsecure .com
quickinstallpack .com
quickdownloadpro .com
advancedcleaner .com
performanceoptimizer .com
internetanonymizer .com

ieprogramming .com (92.62.101.83)
uptodatepage .com
fileliveupdate .com
qwertypages .com
sharedupdates .com
ierenewals .com

norton-antivirus-alert .com
norton-anti-virus-2007 .com
norton-antivirus-2007 .com
norton-antivirus2007 .com
nortonantivirus2007 .com
norton-antivirus-2008 .com
nortonantivirus2008 .com
nortonantivirus2008freedownload .com
norton-antivirus-2009 .com
nortonantivirus2009 .com
norton-antivirus-2010 .com
nortonantivirus2010 .com
nortonantivirus360 .com
nortonantivirus8 .com
nortonantivirusa .com
nortonantivirusactivation .com
norton-antivirus-alert .com
nortonantivirusalerts .com
norton--anti-virus .com
norton-anti-virus .com
norton-antivirus .com
nortonanti-virus .com
nortonantivirus.com
nortonantiviruscom .com
nortonantiviruscorporate .com
nortonantiviruscorporateedition .com
nortonantiviruscoupon .com
nortonantivirusdefinition .com
nortonantivirusdefinitions .com
nortonantivirusdirect .com

Fake Antivirus Inc. is not going away as long as the affiliate based model remains active. If the real vendors were greedy enough not to share the revenues with others, they would have been the one popping up on the radar, compared to the situation where it's the affiliate network's participations greed that's increasing their visibility online.

Related posts:
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Six
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Five
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Four
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Three
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Two
Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software
Cybersquatting Symantec's Norton AntiVirus
Cybersquatting Security Vendors for Fraudulent Purposes
Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Three
Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Two
Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware
EstDomains and Intercage VS Cybercrime
Fake Security Software Domains Serving Exploits
Localized Fake Security Software
Got Your XPShield Up and Running?
Fake PestPatrol Security Software
RBN's Fake Security Software
Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd
Geolocating Malicious ISPs
The Malicious ISPs You Rarely See in Any Report

]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:35:15 +0000 software fake security software vendor branch software vendor diverse portfolio fake porn sites software bundles branch software norton antivirus A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Seven <![CDATA[A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Six]]> http://securityratty.com/article/c31e0991fc6f93e70c9a40cf1ca74ce2 http://securityratty.com/article/c31e0991fc6f93e70c9a40cf1ca74ce2

Thanks to misconfigured traffic management kits, not taking advantage of all the built-in features that could have made a research a little bit more time consuming, here are the latest fake security software domains popping up at the end of fake adult content sites :

anti-spyware8 .com
anti-spyware4 .com
anti-spyware11 .com
anti-spyware10 .com
antivirus-cs1 .com
antivirus-cs14 .com
antivirus-cs4 .com
antivirus-cs15 .com
antivirus-cs5 .com
antivirus-cs7 .com
antivirus-cs8 .com
antivirus-cs9 .com
trustedpaymenssite .com
altawebgl-500 .com
masterspitetds09 .com
protectionaudit .com
prt3ctionactiv3scan .com
prtectionactivescan .com
smartantivirusv2 .com
smartantivirus2009v2 .com
smartantivirus2009v2-buy .com
smartantivirus-2009v2buy .com
smart-antivirus2009v2buy .com
anti-virus-xp .com
anti-virus-xp .net
e-antiviruspro .com
ultimate-anti-virus .com
antimalwarewarrior2009 .com
spyware-buy .com
superantivirus2009 .com
total-secure2009 .com
pcprivacycleanerpro .com
bestguardownload .com
trustedantivirus .com
antivirus-buy1 .com
spyware-quickscan-2008 .com
securealertbar .com
secureclick1 .com
megantivirus2009 .com
micro-antivirus2008 .com
superantivirus2009 .com
advanced-anti-virus .com
antivirusmaster2009 .com
scanner-online1 .com
internet-scanner2009 .com
filescheck-list303 .com
virus-webscanner .com
virus9-webscanner .com
spamnuker .com
detect-file101 .com
googlescanners-360 .com
onlinescannersite9 .com
bestantivirusscan .com
hottystars .com
internet-defenses .com
globals-advers .com
quickupdates29 .com
myscanners101 .com
myfreescan500 .com
scanthnet .com
scanners-pro .com
megatradetds0 .com
xp-licensingpages .com
bestantivirusscan .com

power-avc .com
pvrantivirus .com
online-xp-antivirus-checker .com
antivir-online-scan .com
online-win-xpantivirus .com
tube-911 .com
favoredmovie .com
getqtysoftware .com
softwareportal2008 .com
megazcodec .com
soft-upgrade-network .com
download-base .com
fastsoftdownloads .com
software-downloadz .com
download-soft-basez .com
plupdate .com
0scan .com
virus-online-scan .com
0scanner .com
porno-tds .com
jirolu .com
virus-online-scanz .com
red-tubbe .info
win-xp-antivir-hqscanne .com
xp-protections .com
xp-registration .com
xp2008-protect .com
getdefender2009 .com
gettotalsec2008 .com
msantivirus-xp .com
xp-licensingpages .com
protectionpurchase .com
winxp-antivir-on-line-scan .com
antispychecker .com
errorofbrowser .com
fresh-video-news .com
newschannel2008 .com
internet--daily-news .com
secure.signupsecurity .com
xpacodec .com
xpbcodec .com
gmkvideo .com
hqsextube08 .com
antivirusworld9 .com
viacodecright1 .com
viacodecright2 .com
quickupdates29 .com
antivirusworld9 .com
scanthnet .com
city-codec .com
citycodec .net
codecdownload.anothersoftportal09 .com
viacodecright2 .com
sextubecodec023dfs41 .com
hot-sextubedriver2 .com
viacodecright2 .com

The Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software series are prone to continue taking a bite out of cybercrime, and the people who distribute them on a affiliation based revenue sharing model.

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Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Three
Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Two
Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware
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Fake Security Software Domains Serving Exploits
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Five
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Four
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Three
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Two
Localized Fake Security Software
Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software
Got Your XPShield Up and Running?
Fake PestPatrol Security Software
RBN's Fake Security Software
Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd
Geolocating Malicious ISPs
The Malicious ISPs You Rarely See in Any Report

]]> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:29:31 +0000 fake security software diverse portfolio fake porn sites malicious isps affiliation based revenue malware viacodecright2 lazy summer days traffic management kits A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Six <![CDATA[EstDomains and Intercage VS Cybercrime]]> http://securityratty.com/article/54303a8239cd0becf5843fb3552a50a8 http://securityratty.com/article/54303a8239cd0becf5843fb3552a50a8

Surreal, especially when you get to read that EstDomains has "ruthlessly suspended over five thousand domains only for last week", and also, that it "has a reliable ally in its battle against malware in a face of Intercage, Inc".

Here's the press release :

"The EstDomains, Inc management does not deny the fact that no one is secured from having a customer who uses provided services for delinquent purposes. But it must be noted that the carefully planned infrastructure of EstDomains, Inc makes the special provision for the cases of malware distribution that may originate from the domain name registered under the company's name. Such domain names are suspended immediately along with domain holder's account if there is an evidence of malware presence on the web site. According to the most recent statistics over five thousand domain names were detected and ruthlessly suspended by EstDomains, Inc specialists only last week.

The company also has a reliable ally in its battle against malware in a face of Intercage, Inc which provides company with the hosting services of the highest quality. But the outstanding performance of hosting services is not the sole reason why EstDomains, Inc appreciates this partnership so greatly. Intercage, Inc generously provides EstDomains, Inc specialists with reports regarding discovered malware vehicles. As the main database for additional domain name management services is located in Intercage Data Center, EstDomains, Inc has the perfect opportunity to get notifications of the slightest mark of malware presence in the shortest time and take measures in advance. "

The press release reminds me of RBN's defacement of my blog posted on the 1st of April, and despite that EstDomains started "performing for the community" as of recently, thanks to the collective intelligence and persistence of everyone turning their research into actionable intelligence against them, this performance aiming to minimize the effect of the negative PR is more or less futile considering all the cybercrime activities that they've been tolerating or ignoring for the past couple of years. For future generations to see, this is how EstDomains "performs for the community" :

"We've suspended all the domains listed in this topic. But please don't make posting these domains on this forum a habit. We have a 24/7 online tech support which can be contacted at https://support.estdomains.com

Best regards,
EstDomains Team

EstMate says : Ihatemondayand.com and antispycheck.com - both suspended. If any of the suspended websites are still active to you it maybe be because of your computer's or ISP's DNS-cache, others won't be able to access these websites

googlescanners-360.com isn't registered with us. As for other domains, the ones, which were registered through us, have been suspended. Regarding our preventive measures, the fact that you don't see them doesn't mean there isn't any. Yes, we don't write about them but in most cases we suspend whole accounts with problematic domains and look for connections to other accounts etc. During the last week we've suspended over 15000 different domains."

What's more disturbing regarding this particular domain registrar is that it's a U.S based operation, namely, using the lack of international cybercrime cooperation as an excuse for not taking actions earlier doesn't fit into the picture. Moreover, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and taking into consideration a personal mentality that the cybercriminals you know are better than the cybercriminals you don't know, the RBN or any of its "leftovers" aren't fully taking advantage of the tactics they could be using in order to make it harder to shut them down, but how come? Simply, they don't have to put extra efforts and would once again remain online for years to come, which is perhaps more disturbing at the first place.

What in the world is the Russian Business Network, is it still alive and kicking, are the same people that used to maintain my favorite netblock ever, still the ones running it, and what tactics are they taking advantage of in order to make it harder for the community to establish direct links with a particular netblock and the RBN itself?

With RBN's "leftovers" -- InterCage, Inc., Softlayer Technologies, Layered Technologies, Inc., Ukrtelegroup Ltd, Turkey Abdallah Internet Hizmetleri, and Hostfresh -- making headlines just like the way it should be, what I've been researching for the past couple of months is how they've migrated from the centralized hosting provider to what appears to be a fully operational franchise. The business model is very simple, the RBN through its extensive underground networking skills supplies to customers to franchisers operating small anti-abuse netblocks across the globe, where they offer dedicated hosting and share revenue with the RBN. Anyone trusted enough and capable of supplying such netblocks starts running the RBN anti-abuse franchise. It's also worth pointing out that these franchises are in fact starting to cut the middle man, and disintermediate the RBN by actively advertising their services in order for them to create a self-sustainable business model without having to rely on the RBN connecting them with customers.

What used to be a centralized cybercrime powerhouse operating several highly visible anti-abuse netblocks, is today's decentralized infrastructure, with the profit margins for the anti-abuse services that it's logically capable to break-even and earn profits even with a few high profile dedicated hosting customers. Anyone can be the Russian Business Network, gain experience into the market segment, then disintermediate them by starting to advertise their own services. From a powerhouse to a franchise model, what the RBN had to offer can be easily duplicated by a countless number of local RBN's, and this is only starting to take place.

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Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd.
The Malicious ISPs you Rarely See in Any Report
Geolocationg Malicious ISPs
The New Media Malware Gang - Part Four
The New Media Malware Gang - Part Three
The New Media Malware Gang - Part Two
The New Media Malware Gang
RBN's Fake Account Suspended Notices
HACKED BY THE RBN!
Rogue RBN Software Pushed Through Blackhat SEO
RBN's Phishing Activities
RBN's Puppets Need Their Master
RBN's Fake Account Suspended Notices
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software
Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep my Little RBN
Exposing the Russian Business Network
Detecting the Blocking the Russian Business Network
Over 100 Malwares Hosted on a Single RBN IP
RBN's Fake Security Software
The Russian Business Network

]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:09:44 +0000 single rbn rbn rbn anti-abuse franchise estdomains malware malware distribution thousand domain names domain names rogue rbn software EstDomains and Intercage VS Cybercrime <![CDATA[A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Five]]> http://securityratty.com/article/38118a4a2d1022021197659857d63ff3 http://securityratty.com/article/38118a4a2d1022021197659857d63ff3

The "campaign managers" behind these fake security software propositions are not just starting to take park them at up to three different locations, localize the sites to different languages and introduce client-side exploits, just in case the end user gets suspicious and doesn't install it, but also, the natural evasive practices. For instance, once some of their domains get detected and blocked, they put them in a stand by mode and relaunch them online in a week or so, or ensure that only those coming to the domains from where they are supposed to come - yet another blackhat SEO or SQL injection attack - are the only ones getting to see the download screen.

Some of the new additions parked at the same IPs offered by the "known suspects" include :

main-scanner .com - (77.244.220.138; 78.159.97.247; 89.149.209.251; 212.95.37.154)
scanner-mainpro .com
scanner-online1 .com
alldiskscheck300 .com
myscanners101 .com
download-a1 .com
scanner-online1 .com
multilang1 .com
ratemyblog1 .com
multisearch1 .com
filescheck-list303 .com
woodst-sale .com
scanner-mainpro .com
main-scanner .com
directrevisions .com

supersolution-freeantivirus .com - (213.155.2.69)
antivirus-bestsolution .net
antivirus4protection .net
antivirusproxp .com
freebest-antivirus .net
goodantivirus-free .net
noadwareantivirus .com
pwrantivirus2009 .com
solution-freeantivirus .com
supersolution-antivirus .com
supersolution-freeantivirus .com
antivirusdwl .com
securesoftdl .com
viva-codec .com
win-antivirus-protect .com
avxp-2008 .net
antivirusq .net
antivirus2008b .net
antivirus2008m .net
antivirus2008n .net
antivirus2008v .net
antivirus777 .com
antivirusq .net
antivirusr .net
antivirust .net
antivirusw .net
antivirusu .net
expressantivirus2009 .com
spywarezscan .net
antispywareq .net
free-anti-spywaree .net
avcheckyourpc .net

software-for-me08 .com - (78.157.143.250)
software-for-me-08 .com
softwarefor-me2008 .com
softwarefor-me-2008 .com
software-forme08 .com

doctor2antivirus .com - (217.112.94.226; 87.248.163.56)
doctor5antivirus .com
doctor6antivirus .com
doctor7antivirus .com
doctor8antivirus .com
doctorantivirus2008a .com
doctor-antivirus .com
bcodecnow .net

mysoftwarefreezone .com - (91.203.92.97)
hotvid44 .com
totsec2009 .com
getdefender2009 .com
totalsecure2009 .com
myveryprivatevid .com
mustseethatvid .com
onlythebestvid .com
ie-antivirus-order .com
ie-anti-virus .com
secure-order-box .com

secureexpertcleaner .com - (89.149.227.50)
bestxpclean2008 .com
virusremover2008 .com
registrydoctor2008 .com
securefileshredder .com
hypersecurefileshredder .com
bestsecureexpertcleaner .com

getdefender2009 .com - (58.65.238.34)
malwarebell .com
free-viruscan .com
tmptmpservvv .com
cometoseemyshow .com

getneededsoftware .com - (91.203.93.25)
gettotalsec2008 .com
thedownloadvid .com
scan.pc-antispyware-scanner .com
totalsecure2009 .com

wista-antivirus2009 .com - (216.255.179.203)
usawindowsupdates .com - (85.17.143.213)
mswindowsupdates .com

The campaigns and the hosting providers are continuously monitored, especially taking into consideration the fact that the domains are already appearing in Alexa's web rankings with sudden peaks of traffic.

Related posts:
Fake Security Software Domains Serving Exploits
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Four
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Three
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Two
Localized Fake Security Software
Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software
Got Your XPShield Up and Running?
Fake PestPatrol Security Software
RBN's Fake Security Software
Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd
Geolocating Malicious ISPs
The Malicious ISPs You Rarely See in Any Report

]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:04:58 +0000 fake security software net diverse portfolio introduce client-side exploits malicious isps exploits sql injection attack lazy summer days domains A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Five <![CDATA[Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Three]]> http://securityratty.com/article/df6f06139a5c1a6029631a2d5221d428 http://securityratty.com/article/df6f06139a5c1a6029631a2d5221d428

Continue the Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware and Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Two series, in part three we'll take a peek at the emerging trend of parking a single domain at up to three different hosting locations, re-establishing connections between malicious ISPs for yet another time in between exposing the domains and the download locations sharing the same IPs.

downlfreesexgirlbeach .com first redirects to infodist1 .com/in.cgi?2 then to watchnenjoy.com/index.php?id=1314&style=black, and finally to the front end to the codec's download location handmadeclips .com, where the codec is downloaded from fwlprocedure .com. Behind these domains, we can easily expose many other fake porn sites and pharmaceutical scams, next to a small portfolio of domains specifically used for hosting the binaries. Due to the obvious rotation I've encountered several times so far, a fake porn site today, is tomorrow's blackhat SEO content farm :

downlfreesexgirlbeach .com - (88.214.198.25)
vids365 .com
downlfreesexgirlbeach .com
top.only-bi .com
wikiei .com
paysuperporn .com
aboutsexporn .com
freactor .com
cheapofficialpills .com
finance-leaders.comnudenakedboys .com
photosgayboys .com
uniqueincest.com
shyincest .com
banrnd.central-xxx .com
tvisklick .info
thebg .net
termion .net
xoxvids .net
bestpricepills .net
bcodecnow .net

infodist1 .com - (88.214.204.40)
farmasearch2008 .com
flaxxvid .com
xanax777pills .com
18virgingirls .com
girlnudegallaryvideox .com
allxxxpornogerlsx .com
jproshin .info
familytaboo .info
fullsitehost .info
20searchonlinesite .net
add-your-video .net
blogs4y .net

adult-shemale .com - (88.214.198.25)
adult-tranny .com
all-shemale .com
bcodecnow .net
best-tranny .com
bestguyportal .com
bestmoviez .com
central-xxx .com
downlfreesexgirlbeach .com
gallery-boy .com
hiosexywomensxxxgirlsx .com
lady-dick .com
bcodecnow .net
mytoppharmacy .com
nakednudeboys .com
nakednudemen .com
nudenakedboys .com
only-bi .com
only-shemale .com
page-reviews .com
paulaslosingit .com
photosgayboys .com
stud-boys .com
the0download .com
wikiei .com
moviez .com
hiosexywomensxxxgirlsx .com
sexygirlsisuniformh0t .com
the0download .com

flwprocedure .com - (77.91.231.201)
movupdate .com
flwupdate .com
formatmpeg .com
movieexternal .com
flwtool .com
aviexecution .com
releasedvideo .com
wmvcompressor .com
movieopens .com
mpegapparatus .com
flwassistant .com
flwinstrument .com
piterserv .com
wovview .com

Some info on a sample codec :
Scanners Result: 11/36 (30.56%)
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob.cos
Trojan.Popuper.7315
File size: 10240 bytes
MD5...: 467e4e78974dc8b2ee5d7da024daf31a
SHA1..: 311e0c710bb15761ef3dace54b55489830cf5803

Phones back to 69.50.164.50/this/is/stereo/music.php?param=0;1314;1550; 69.50.164.50/this/is/stereo/jazz.php?param=49325611;2:191:5|7:271:0|6:130:0|9:0:5|34:65536:0 and to 85.255.119.244/this/is/stereo/music.php?param=0;4135;1548.

When Emil Kaperski's owned InterCage, Inc. (69.50.164.50) meets UkrTeleGroup Ltd. (85.255.119.244) previously known as Andrei Kislizin's owned InHoster, you know you're on the right track.

]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:02:26 +0000 fake porn sites net info codec malware php sample codec locations fake porn site Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Three <![CDATA[A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Four]]> http://securityratty.com/article/89e92ac703db317a9f2d0ad0ae004a56 http://securityratty.com/article/89e92ac703db317a9f2d0ad0ae004a56

Thanks to the affiliate based business model that's driving the increase of fake security software and rogue codecs serving domains, the very same templates, but with different domain names, continue appearing in blackhat SEO, spam, and malicious doorways redirection campaigns.

Moreover, with the "time-to-market" of a fake security software decreasing due to the efficiency approach introduced in the form of tips for abuse-free hosting services provided by the "known suspects", and the freely available templates, we're slowly starting to see the upcoming peak of this approach.

In a true proactive spirit, the domains parked at 216.195.56.88 are all upcoming fake security software, to be introduced anytime soon.

fast-pc-scanner-online .com - (92.62.101.41; 91.203.92.48; 91.203.92.106; 58.65.238.171)
top-pc-scanner .com
buy-secure-protection .com
security-scan-pc .com
pc-scanner-online .com
viruses-scanonline .com
virus-scanonline .com
antivirus-scanonline .com
topvirusscan .com
virusbestscan .com
best-security-protection .com
infectionscanner .com
virusbestscanner .com
full-protection-now .com

Pwrantivirus .com - 91.208.0.246
vav-x-scanner .com
vav-scanner .com
scanner.vavscan .com
malware-scan .com
Scanner-Pwrantivirus .com
Xpertantivirus .com
Scanner-xpertantivirus .com

spyware-quickscan-2008 .com - (216.195.56.88)
virus-quickscan-2008 .com
spyware-quickscan-2009 .com
virus-quickscan-2009 .com
winmalwarecontrol .com
antispyware-quick-scan .com
virus-quick-scan .com
antivirus-quick-scan .com
winprivacytool .com

topantispyware2008 .com - (216.195.56.86)
cleanermaster .com - (216.195.56.85)
antivirus777 .com - (67.228.120.3)
pcsecuritynotice .com - (67.228.120.3)

Whereas the average Internet users are falling victims into this type of fraud, what I'm more concerned about is the large traffic the malicious domains receive in general due to all the different traffic acquisition tactics the people behind them apply. This anticipated traffic can then be greatly used as valuable metrics for the many other malicious ways in which it can be monetized.

Ironically, the participant in the affiliate program whose original objective was to drive traffic to the fake security software's site, may in fact start receiving so much traffic due to the combination of traffic acquisition tactics, that introducing client-side exploits courtesy of a third-party affiliate network, may in fact prove more profitable then the revenue sharing partnership with the rogue security software's vendor at the first place.

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RBN's Fake Security Software
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Geolocating Malicious ISPs
The Malicious ISPs You Rarely See in Any Report

]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:58:02 +0000 fake security software traffic drive traffic diverse portfolio traffic acquisition tactics malicious malicious isps due traffic due A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Four <![CDATA[A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Two]]> http://securityratty.com/article/9d3454e7551fca2a11e4a5ee55704677 http://securityratty.com/article/9d3454e7551fca2a11e4a5ee55704677

With scammers continuing to introduce new typosquatted domains promoting well known brands of rogue security software that is most often found at the far end of a malware campaign, exposing yet another diverse portfolio of last week's introduced domains is what follows.

Naturally, in between taking advantage of the usual hosting services, most of the domains remain parked at the same IPs, this centralization makes it easier to locate them all, then having to go through several misconfigured malicious doorways that will anyway expose the portfolio.

antivirus2008t-pro .com - (91.203.92.64; 78.157.142.7)
antivirus2008pro-download1 .com
antivirus2008pro-download2 .com
scanner.antivir64 .com
antivirus2008t-pro .com
antivirus-2008y-pro .com

systemscanner2009 .com - (89.18.189.44; 208.88.53.114)
xpdownloadserver .com
global-advers .com
xpantivirus .com
updatesantivirus .com
windows-scannernv .com

ratemyblog1 .com - 208.88.53.114
windows-scanner2009 .com
systemscanner2009 .com
antivirus-database .com
antivirus2009professional .com
antivirus-2009pro .com
antivirus2009-scanner .com
global-advers .com
drivemedirect .com
windows-scannernv .com

webscweb-scannerfree .com - (58.65.238.106; 208.88.53.180)
freebmwx3 .com
mytube4 .com
beginner2009 .com
webscweb-scannerfree .com
antivirus2009-software .com
antivirus-database .com
purchase-anti .com

onlinescannerxp .com
virus-onlinescanner .com
spywareonlinescanner .com
xponlinescanner .com
virus-securityscanner .com
virus-securityscanner .com
webscannerfreever .com
blazervips .com
global-advers .com
xpantivirus .com
drivemedirect .com
windows-scannernv .com

mytube4 .com - 58.65.238.106
beginner2009 .com
webscweb-scannerfree .com
securityscannerfree .com
xpcleaner-online .com
streamhotvideo .com
xpcleanerpro .com
onlinescannerxp .com
online-xpcleaner .com
antispyguard-scanner .com
virus-onlinescanner .com
microsoft.browsersecuritycenter .com
fastupdateserver .com
blazervips .com
xpantivirus .com
drivemedirect .com
fastwebway .com
xpantivirussecurity .com
wordpress.firm .in
megacodec .biz
mcprivate .biz

internet-defense2009 .com - 84.16.252.73
myfreespace3 .com
greatvideo3 .com
internet-defense2009 .com
windows-defense .com
3gigabytes .com
teledisons .com
updatesantivirus .com
update-direct .com
xp-protectsoft .com

top-pc-scanner .com - (91.203.92.50; 92.62.101.43)
nortonsoft .com - (91.186.11.5)
powerantivirus-2009 .com - (91.208.0.233)
powerantivirus2009 .com - (91.208.0.233)
pwrantivirus .com - (91.208.0.231)
xp-guard .com - (92.62.101.35)
xpertantivirus .com - (91.208.0.230)
internetscanner2009 .com - (89.149.229.168)

Where's the business model here? Where it's always been, upon installation of the rogue security software, the malware campaigner earns up to 40% revenue from the rogue security software's vendor.

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]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:51:48 +0000 fake security software portfolio diverse portfolio rogue security software domains domains remain drivemedirect global-advers lazy summer days A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Two <![CDATA[Compromised Web Servers Serving Fake Flash Players]]> http://securityratty.com/article/df22299b279b6326bc0fb82a62ea61b9 http://securityratty.com/article/df22299b279b6326bc0fb82a62ea61b9

The tactic of abusing web servers whose vulnerable web applications allow a malicious attacker to locally host a malicious campaign is nothing new. In fact, malicious attackers have been building so much confidence in this risk-forwarding process of hosting their campaigns, that they would start actively spamming the links residing within low-profile legitimate sites across the web.

This campaign serving fake flash players is getting so prevalent these days due to the multiple spamming approaches used, that it's hard not to notice it - and expose it. From a strategic perspective, having a legitimate low-profile site -- of course with the obvious exceptions being on purposely registered for malicious purposes within the participating sites -- hosting your malicious campaign is pretty creative in terms of forwarding the responsibility, and the eventual blocking of a legitimate site to the its owner. As far as the owner's are concerned, it appears that some of them are already seeing the malware page popping-up on the top of their daily traffic stats, and have taken measures to remove it.

Moreover, Adobe's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) issued a warning notice about the attack yesterday, which could come handy if the attackers weren't taking advantage of client-side vulnerabilities, putting the unware end user is a situation where he wouldn't even receive a download dialog :

"We have seen coverage from the security community of a worm on popular social networking sites that is using social engineering lures to get users to install a piece of malware. According to the reports, the worm posts comments on these sites that include links to a fake site. If the link is followed, users are told they need to update their Flash Player. The installer, posted on a malicious site, of course installs malware instead of Flash Player.We’d like to take this opportunity to reiterate the importance of validating installers and updates before installing them. First off, do not download Flash Player from a site other than adobe.com – you can find the link for downloading Flash Player here. This goes for any piece of software (Reader, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, etc.) – if you get a notice to update, it’s not a bad idea to go directly to the site of the software vendor and download the update directly from the source. If the download is from an unfamiliar URL or an IP address, you should be suspicious."

The structure of the malware campaign is pretty static, with several exceptions where they also take advange of client-side vulnerabilities (Real player exploit) attempting to automatically deliver the fake flash update or player depending on the campaign. On each and every site, there are dnd.js and master.js scripts shich serve the rogue download window, and another .html file, where an IFRAME attempts to access the traffic management command and control, in a random URL it was 207.10.234.217/cgi-bin/index.cgi?user200. A sample list of participating URLs, most of which are still active and running :

joseantoniobaltanas .com

automoviliaria .es/hotnews.html
risasnc .it/fresh.html
carpe-diem .com.mx/fresh.html
kotilogullari .com.tr/hotnews.html
ferrariclubpesaro .it/hotnews.html
imobiliariacom .com.br/default.html
misoares .com
osniehus .de/fresh.html
mydirecttube .com/1/5098/
madosma .com/default.html
tutotic .com/checkit.html
veit-team .si/default.html
antigewaltkurse .de/stream.html
kwhgs .ca/topnews.html
vorgo .com/stream.html
ankaraspor .com.tr/default.html
xxxdnn0314 .locaweb.com.br/watchit.html
ossuzio .com/watchit.html
cit-inc .net/default.html
negocioindependiente .biz/default.html
ambermarketing .com/topnews.html
web27 .login-7.loginserver.ch/stream.html
moretewebdesign .br-web.com/stream.html
omdconsulting .es/topnews.html
parapendiolestreghe .it/hotnews.html
campodifiori .it/topnews.html
212.50.55.81 /stream.html
logisigns .net/fresh.html
intimaescorts .com/default.html
ghioautotre .it/live.html
geckert .de/stream.html
yuricardinali .com/watchit.html
retder .com/fresh.html
valdaran .es/default.html
getadultaccess .com/movie/?aff=5274
bauelemente-giering .de/stream.html
newyork-hebergement .com/watchit.html
allevatoritrotto .it/live.html
exoss2 .com/hotnews.html
soundandlightkaraoke .com/stream.html
land-kan .com/stream.html
grimaldi.nexenservices .com/watchit.html
inconstancia .com.br/watchit.html
gretelstudio .com/stream.html
sumacyl .com/watchit.html
mysna .net/fresh.html
gimnasioyx .com.ar/watchit.html
lagalbana .com/watchit.html
bielizna.tgory .pl/topnews.html
bcs92.imingo .net/stream.html
lapiramidecoslada .es/topnews.html
raulortega .com/stream.html
go-art-morelli .de/hotnews.html
wowhard.baewha .ac.kr/watchit.html
dianagraf .es/default.html
komma10-thueringen .de/hotnews.html
miavassilev .com/stream.html
swampgiants .com/watchit.html
compagniedephalsbourg .com/fresh.html
arla-rc .net/hotnews.html
salacopernico .es/watchit.html
drfinster .de/checkit.html
healthylifehypnotherapy .com/stream.html
ecotrike-bg .com/fresh.html
paoepalavra .org/watchit.html
jureplaninc-sp .com/topnews.html
fichte-lintfort .de/default.html
hergert-band .de/checkit.html
izliyorum .org/topnews.html
lideka .com/stream.html
athena-digitaldesign .com.tw/hotnews.html
e-paso .pl/stream.html
colombeblanche .org/stream.html
teatromalasa .es/watchit.html
mesporte.digiweb.com .br/stream.html
bistrodavila.com .br/watchit.html
hausfeld-solar .de/topnews.html
nakedinbed.co .uk/topnews.html
csr.imb .br/stream.html
herion-architekten .de/default.html
jbhumet .com/default.html
gruppouni .com/hotnews.html
francex .net/fresh.html
galvatoledo .com/topnews.html
cmeedilizia .eu/topnews.html
kroenert .name/default.html
textilhogarnovadecor .com/topnews.html
keithcrook .com/stream.html
elpatiodejesusmaria .com/checkit.html
neticon .pl/hotnews.html
malerbetrieb-pelzer .de/hotnews.html
easterstreet .de/fresh.html
piogiovannini .com.ar/watchit.html
ser-all .com/topnews.html
petzold-dieter .de/checkit.html
beatmung-brandenburg .de/checkit.html
ossuzio .com/watchit.html
teatromalasa .es/watchit.html
vuelosultimahora .com/topnews.html
zelenaratolest .cz/pornotube/index1.htm
ambulatoriovirtuale .it/topnews.html
10a3 .ru/index1.php
izliyorum .org/topnews.html
collectedthoughts .co.uk/index12.html
afg .es/topnews.html
albertruiz .net/topnews.html
bielizna.tgory .pl/topnews.html
blueseven.com .br/topnews.html
bollettinogiuridicosanitario .it/topnews.html
caprilchamonix.com .br/topnews.html
carlolongarini .it/topnews.html
champimousse .com/topnews.html
cheviot.org .nz/topnews.html
contrapie .com/topnews.html
gruppouni .com/topnews.html
hausfeld-solar .de/topnews.html
herbatele .com/topnews.html
houseincostaricaforsale .com/topnews.html
alim.co .il/topnews.html
allevatoritrotto .it/topnews.html
amafe .org/topnews.html
ambulatoriovirtuale .it/topnews.html
atelier-de-loulou .fr/topnews.html
automoviliaria .es/topnews.html
autoreserve .fr/topnews.html
izliyorum .org/topnews.html
jureplaninc-sp .com/topnews.html
kwhgs .ca/topnews.html
lapiramidecoslada .es/topnews.html
last-minute-reisen-4u .de/topnews.html
marcadina .fr/topnews.html
maremax .it/topnews.html
corradiproject .info/topnews.html
dantealighieriasturias .es/topnews.html
deliriuslaspalmas .com/topnews.html
ecchoppers .co.za/topnews.html
elianacaminada .net/topnews.html
fonavistas .com/topnews.html
fraemma .com/topnews.html
fundmyira .com/topnews.html
galvatoledo .com/topnews.html
grafisch-ontwerpburo .nl/topnews.html
markmaverick .com/topnews.html
micela .info/topnews.html
motoclubnosvamos .com/topnews.html
nebottorrella .com/topnews.html
negozistore .it/topnews.html
neticon .pl/topnews.html
norbert-leifheit.gmxhome .de/topnews.html
segelclub-honau .de/topnews.html
snmobilya .com/topnews.html
splashcor .com.br/topnews.html
stephanmager .gmxhome.de/topnews.html
svcanvas .com/topnews.html
tautau.web .simplesnet.pt/topnews.html
textilhogarnovadecor .com/topnews.html
theflorist4u .com/topnews.html
thewindsorhotel .it/topnews.html
vuelosultimahora .com/topnews.html
aliarzani .de/topnews.html
ambermarketing .com/topnews.html
arnold82.gmxhome .de/topnews.html
ocoartefatos.com .br/topnews.html
omdconsulting .es/topnews.html
parapendiolestreghe .it/topnews.html
positive-begegnungen .de/topnews.html
projetsoft .net/topnews.html
rbc.gmxhome .de/topnews.html
beatmung-sachsen .eu/topnews.html
campodifiori .it/topnews.html
clickjava .net/topnews.html
cmeedilizia .eu/topnews.html
dammer .info/topnews.html
embedded-silicon .de/topnews.html
ferrariclubpesaro .it/topnews.html
fgwiese .de/topnews.html
fswash.site .br.com/topnews.html
fytema .es/topnews.html
gildas-saliou. com/topnews.html
go-art-morelli .de/topnews.html
go-siegmund .de/topnews.html
guerrero-tuning .com/topnews.html
gut-barbarastein .de/topnews.html
japansec .com/topnews.html
komma10-thueringen .de/topnews.html
koon-design .de/topnews.html
lanz-volldiesel .de/topnews.html
lauscher-staat .de/topnews.html
losnaranjos.com .es/topnews.html
medical-service-krause .de/topnews.html
nakedinbed.co .uk/topnews.html
nepi.si/topnews .html
radieschenhein. de/topnews.html
residenceflora .it/topnews.html
sabuha .de/topnews.html
ser-all .com/topnews.html
siemieniewicz .de/topnews.html
viajesk .es/topnews.html
allevatoritrotto .it/live.html
bollettinogiuridicosanitario .it/live.html
carlolongarini .it/topnews.html
maremax .it/topnews.html
negozistore .it/topnews.html
parapendiolestreghe .it/live.html
www.donlisander .it/stream.html
aerogenesis .net/watchit.html
allevatoritrotto .it/live.html
atelier-de-loulou .fr/topnews.html
bistrodavila.com .br/watchit.html
bollettinogiuridicosanitario .it/live.html
caprilchamonix.com .br/topnews.html
cheviot.org .nz/live.html
condorautocenter .com.br/watchit.html
dantealighieriasturias .es/live.html
ecchoppers .co.za/topnews.html
elianacaminada .net/live.html
fonavistas .com/topnews.html
fundmyira .com/topnews.html
g6esporte .com.br/stream.html
grafisch-ontwerpburo .nl/topnews.html
gretelstudio .com/stream.html
gutierrezymoralo .com/watchit.html
healthylifehypnotherapy .com/stream.html
herbatele .com/live.html
jureplaninc-sp .com/topnews.html
lacomercialsrl .com.ar/stream.html
lagalbana .com/watchit.html
lapuertaestrecha .com.es/watchit.html
marcadina .fr/topnews.html
maremax .it/topnews.html
myadultcube .com/flash//aff=5176
myadultcube .com/flash//aff=5810
myadultcube .com/movie//aff=5155
newyork-hebergement .com/watchit.html
norbert-leifheit.gmxhome .de/topnews.html
omdconsulting .es/topnews.html
oyakatakent46537 .com/stream.html
parapendiolestreghe .it/live.html
regesh. co.il/watchit.html
rikkeroenneberg .dk/watchit.html
s215847279 .onlinehome.fr/stream.html
salacopernico .es/watchit.html
seekzones .com/watchit.html
seicomsl .es/watchit.html
sigma-lux .ro/watchit.html
soundandlightkaraoke .com/stream.html
stephanmager.gmxhome .de/topnews.html
tartuinstituut .ca/watchit.html
teatromalasa .es/watchit.html
vuelosultimahora .com/topnews.html
wowhard.baewha .ac.kr/watchit.html
aliarzani .de/topnews.html
ambermarketing. com/live.html
bilbondo .com/watchit.html
bollettinogiuridicosanitario .it/live.html
colombeblanche .org/stream.html
donlisander .it/stream.html
fgwiese .de/topnews.html
geckert .de/stream.html
helene-taucher .de/watchit.html
lanz-volldiesel .de/topnews.html
mairie-margnylescompiegne .fr/watchit.html
medical-service-krause .de/topnews.html
nakedinbed.co .uk/topnews.html
ossuzio .com/watchit.html
piogiovannini .com.ar/watchit.html
sabuha .de/topnews.html
sumacyl .com/watchit.html
swampgiants .com/watchit.html
xn--glland-3ya .de/stream.html
yuricardinali .com/watchit.html
nepi .si/topnews.html
dammer .info/topnews.html
atelier-de-loulou .fr/topnews.html
galvatoledo .com/topnews.html
allevatoritrotto .it/topnews.html
hausfeld-solar .de/topnews.html
micela .info/topnews.html
bistrodavila .com.br/watchit.html
hausfeld-solar .de/topnews.html
csr.imb .br/stream.html
herion-architekten .de/default.html
gruppouni .com/hotnews.html
galvatoledo .com/topnews.html
kroenert .name/default.html
keithcrook .com/stream.html
elpatiodejesusmaria .com/checkit.html
malerbetrieb-pelzer .de/hotnews.html
dantealighieriasturias .es/topnews.html
oyakatakent46537 .com/stream.html
89.19.29 .13/stream.html
slobodandjakovic .com/fresh.html
cqcs.com .br/stream.html
seekzones .com/watchit.html
pascosa .it/stream.html
caprilchamonix .com.br/topnews.html
positive-begegnungen .de/topnews.html
ferien-urlaub-lastminute .de/default.html
mueggelpark .info/watchit.html
hillner-online .de/fresh.html
guiasaojose .net/default.html
deliriuslaspalmas .com/topnews.html
fraemma .com/topnews.html
morsbaby .net/default.html
vickywhite .com/fresh.html
micela .info/topnews.html
corradiproject .info/topnews.html
liguehavraise .com/live.html
capacitacaoemlideranca .com.br/fresh.html
materialesyacabados .com.mx/stream.html
208.112.7.68 /checkit.html
152.10.1.37 /1.html
carlolongarini .it/topnews.html
splashcor.com .br/topnews.html
lobpreisstrasse .org/1.html
motoclubnosvamos .com/hotnews.html
hk-rc.com /1.html
taaf.re /stream.html
dulceysalao .com/default.html
amafe .org/topnews.html

Sample detection rate : flashupdate.exe
Scanners Result: 35/36 (97.23%)
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Exchanger.hk; Troj/Cbeplay-A
File size: 78848 bytes
MD5...: c81b29a3662b6083e3590939b6793bb8
SHA1..: d513275c276840cb528ce11dd228eae46a74b4b4

The downloader then "phones back home" at 72.9.98.234 port 443 which is responding to the rogue security software AntiSpy Spider (antispyspider.net) :

"AntiSpy Spider is a cutting-edge anti-spyware solution.This revolutionary anti-spyware program was created by the industry's top spyware experts in order to protect your computer and your privacy.html, while ensuring optimal system performance.With the ability to locate, eliminate and prevent the widest range of spyware threats, AntispyStorm is able to offer its users a safe, spyware-free computing experience; and with it's convenient automatic update feature, AntispyStorm ensures continuous up-to-date protection."

Sample detection rate : antispyspider.msi
Scanners Result: 11/35 (31.43%)
FraudTool.Win32.AntiSpySpider.b;
File size: 1851904 bytes
MD5...: 2f1389e445f65e8a9c1a648b42a23827
SHA1..: e32aa6aa791e98fe6fdef451bd3b8a45bad0acd8

The bottom line - over a thousand domains are participating, with many other apparently joining the party proportionally with the web site owner's actions to get rid of the malware campaign hosted on their servers.

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]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:50:04 +0000 file html file html comtopnews detopnews windows media player player web real player exploit Compromised Web Servers Serving Fake Flash Players <![CDATA[Summarizing July's Threatscape]]> http://securityratty.com/article/2860027a1eaa69350d814429c3bf6070 http://securityratty.com/article/2860027a1eaa69350d814429c3bf6070

July's threatscape -- consider going through June's summary as well -- once again demonstrated that nothing is impossible, the impossible just takes a little longer where the incentive would be the ultimate monetization of the process.

Russian hacktivists attacking Lithuania and Georgia, several Storm Worm campaigns, a couple of new malware tools, Neosploit team abandoning support for their web malware exploitation kit, CAPTCHA for several of the most popular free email providers getting efficiently attacked in order to resell the bogus accounts registered in the process, several copycat SQL injects next to the evasion techniques applied by the copycats, botnets continuing to commit click fraud and generate revenue for those who own or have rented them, an infamous money mule recruitment service taking advantage of the fast-fluxed network provided by the ASProx botnet - pretty interesting month indeed.

01. Decrypting and Restoring GPcode Encrypted Files -
The GPcode authors read the news too, and are catching up with the major weaknesses pointed out in their previous release in order to come with a virtually unbreakable algorithm. And since more evidence of who's behind the GPcode ransomware was gathered, vendors and independent researchers realized that the latest release is also susceptible to a plain simple flaw, namely the encrypted files were basically getting deleting and not securely erased making them fairly easy to recover.

02. Chinese Bloggers Bypassing Censorship by Blogging Backward -
When you know how it works, you can either improve, abuse or destroy it in that very particular order. Chinese bloggers are always very adaptive in respect to spreading their message by obfuscating their messages in a way that common keywords filtering software wouldn't be able to pick them.

03. Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA Broken -
This has been an urban legend for a while, but with more services starting to offer hundreds of thousands of pre-registered accounts at these providers, it's surprising that spam and phishing emails coming from legitimate email providers is increasing. The "vendors" behind these propositions are naturally starting to "vertically integrate" by offering value-added services for extra payments, namely, scripts to automatically abuse the pre-registered accounts for automatic registration of splogs and anything else malicious or blackhat SEO related.

04. The Antivirus Industry in 2008 -
If it were anyone else but a security vendor to come up with such a realistic cartoon aiming to stimulate innovation by emphasizing on how prolific and sophisticated malware groups have become, it would have been a biased cartoon. However, this one is courtesy of a security vendor, and it's pretty objective.

05. Lithuania Attacked by Russian Hacktivists, 300 Sites Defaced -
This attack is a good example of a decent PSYOPS operation. Of course they have already build the capabilities to deface and even execute DDoS attacks against Lithuania, so why not put them in a "stay tuned" mode, by speculating on the upcoming attack and then executing it making it look like they delived what they've promised? This a lone gunman mass defacement given that the sites were all hosted on a single ISP, with no indication of any kind of coordination whatsoever. The same for the Georgia President’s web site which was under DDoS attack from Russian hackers later this month. Despite that the hacktivists behind it dedicated a separate C&C for the attack, one that hasn't been used in any type of previous attacks so far, they did a minor mistake by using a secondary command and control location that's known to have been connected with a particular "botnet on demand" service in the past. The second attack once again proves that you don't need to build capacity when you can basically outsource the process to someone else.

06. The ICANN Responds to the DNS Hijacking, Its Blog Under Attack -
The ICANN finally issued a statement concerning the DNS hijacking of some of their domains, which is in fact what Comcast.net and Photobucket.com should have done as well, next to stating it was a "glitch". The ICANN also took advantage of the moment and also pointed out that their blog has also been under attack during the month. There's no better example of how the combination of tactics can result in the hijacking of the domains of the organizations implementing procedures aiming to protect against these very same attacks. And while Photobucket.com remained silent during the entire incident, the hosting provider that was used by the Netdevilz team in the two attacks, since they were also responsible for the ICANN and IANA DNS hijackings, technological and social engineeringissued a statement.

07. The Risks of Outdated Situational Awareness -
Security vendors are often in a "catch-up mode" and if I were an average Internet user not knowing that real-time situational awareness speaks for the degree to which my vendor knows what going on online, I'd be pretty excited. However, I'm not. Prevx were catching up with a service which I covered approximately two months ago, I even had the chance to constructively confront with one of the affected sites on how despite their security measures in place, this attack was still possible. Recently Prevx have once again demonstrated an outdated situational awareness by coming across a banking malware in July 2008, whereas the malware has been around since July 2007, and earlier depending on which version you're referring to.

08. Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Two -
Yet another domain portfolio of fake porn sites serving rogue codecs and live exploit URLs, just the tip of the iceberg as usual, however their centralization is greatly assisting in tracking them down.

09. Storm Worm's U.S Invasion of Iran Campaign -
Stormy Wormy is once again making the headlines with their ability to actually make up the headlines on their own.

10. Mobile Malware Scam iSexPlayer Wants Your Money -
The best scams are the ones to which you've personally agreed to be scammed with without even knowing it. Like this one, which was tracked down and analyzed a couple of hours once a uset tipped on it.

11. The Template-ization of Malware Serving Sites -
The increase of fake porn and celebrity sites is due to the overall template-ization of these, with the people behind them basically implementing several malicious doorways to ensure that the domains get rotated on the fly. Despite that they all look the same, they all sever different type of malware, and zero porn of celebrity content at all except the thumbnails.

12. Violating OPSEC for Increasing the Probability of Malware Infection -
No better way to expose your affiliations and several unknown bad netblocks so far, by adding the netblocks and the malicious domains as trusted sites upon infecting a PC with the malware. Of course, the usual suspects lead the "trusted netblocks".

13. Monetizing Compromised Web Sites -
Several years ago, a script kiddie would install Apache on a mail server, they claim that they defaced it. Today, these amusing situations are replaced by monetization of the compromised sites, by reselling the access to them to blackhat SEO-ers, malware authors, phishers, or personally starting to manage a scammy infrastructure on them, by earning money on an affiliate based model, like this particular attack.

14. Malware and Office Documents Joining Forces -
A recent DIY malware kit, sold as a proprietary tool basically crunching out malware infected office documents, whose built-in obfuscation makes them harder to detect. It will sooner or later leak out, turning into a commodity tool, a process that's been pretty evident for web malware exploitation kits as well.

15. Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper? -
Depends on who you're buying them from, and whether or not they offer discounts on a volume basis, namely the more you buy the cheaper the price of a card is supposed to get. With the current oversupply of stolen credit card details, what used to be an exclusive good once where they could enjoy a higher profit-margin, is today's commodity good.

16. The Neosploit Malware Kit Updated with Snapshot ActiveX Exploit -
Since alll the web malware exploitation kits are open source, and leaked in the wild at large, their modularity allows everyone to easily embed any type of exploit that they want to, resulting in Neosploit's single most beneficial feature, the fact that certain versions include all the publicly available exploits targeting Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. Moreover, the open source nature of the kit is resulting in a countless number of modified versions yet to be detected and analyzed, therefore keeping track of the exploits included in a malware kit can only be realistic if you take into considered the exploits that come with the default installation.

17. Obfuscating Fast-fluxed SQL Injected Domains -
Now that's a very good example of different tactics combined to attack, ensure survivability, and apply a certain degree of evasion in between.

18. The Unbreakable CAPTCHA -
There's never been a shortage of ideas, there's always been an issue of usability.

19. The Ayyildiz Turkish Hacking Group VS Everyone -
That's a pretty inspiring mission if you are to ensure your future in the next couple of years, by targeting everyone, everywhere that has ever publicly stated their disagreement with the Turkish foreign policy.

20. Money Mule Recruiters use ASProx's Fast Fluxing Services -
A true multitasking in action with a botnet that's been crunching out phishing emails, SQL injecting and now hosting a well known money mule recruitment service.

21. SQL Injecting Malicious Doorways to Serve Malware -
Constantly switching tactics and combining different ones to achive an objective that used to be accomplished by plain simple techniques, is only starting to take place. In this case, instead of a hard coded SQL injected domain, we have the typical malicious doorways the result of the converging traffic management tools with web malware exploitation kits.

22. Impersonating StopBadware.org to Serve Fake Security Warnings -
Typosquatting popular security vendors and services is nothing new, by having HostFresh providing the hosting for the parked domains promoting the rogue security software, is a privilege and flattery for the success of the Stopbadware initiative.

23. Coding Spyware and Malware for Hire -
Customerization -- not customization -- has been taking place for a while, that's the process of tailoring your upcoming products to the needs of your future customers, compared to the product concept myopia where the malware coder would code something that he believes would be valuable to the potential customers. End user agreements, issuing licenses for the malware tool, as well as forbidding the reverse engineering of the malware so that no remotely exploitable flaws could be, are among the requirements the coder assists on.

24. Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd -
Taking a random snapshot of the current malicious activity at a well known provider of hosting services for rogue security applications, live exploit URLs and botnet command&control locations, always provides an insight into what are their customers up to. In this case, centralization of their scammy ecosystem, and parking a countless number of rogue domains on the same server.

25. Email Hacking Going Commercial -
Cybercrime is in fact getting easier to outsource, and while the number of scammers trying to offer non-existent services, or at least services where they cannot deliver the goods, the business model of this service that is that you only pay once they show you a proof that they've managed to hack the email address you game them. How are they doing it? Social engineering and enticing the user to click on live exploit URL from where they'll infect the PC and obtain the email password, of course, next to definitely abusing it for many other purposes in the process.

26. Vulnerabilities in Antivirus Software - Conflict of Interest -
You can easily twist the number of vulnerabilities found in your antivirus solution, but not recognizing them as vulnerabilities at the first place. It's all a matter of what you define as a vulnerability, or perhaps what you admit as a serious vulnerability - remote code execution through a security software, or a flaw that's allowing malware to bypass the security solution itself.

27. Counting the Bullets on the (Malware) Front -
Emphasizing on the number of malware/threats/viruses/worms/slugs your solution detects may be marketable in the short-term, but is damaging the end user's understanding of the threatscape in the long-term. So, by the time he catches up with what exactly is going on, he'll recall the moment in time where he was using the number of threats his solution was detecting as the main benchmark for its usefulness. In reality through, the number is irrelevant from a pro-active point of view, with zero day malware like the one coded for hire undermining the signatures based scanning model.

28. Smells Like a Copycat SQL Injection In the Wild -
It was pretty obvious that copycats seeing the success of SQL injections the the huge number of sites susceptible to exploitation, would also starting taking advantage of the practice. Some are, however, targeting local communities and trying to avoid detection by using targeted SQL injections.

29. Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive -
The scheme is nothing new, what's new is that the botnet masters are trying to limit the revenues that used to go out to affiliate networks they were participating in, and are trying to own or rent the entire infrastructure on their own.

30. Over 80 percent of Storm Worm Spam Sent by Pharmaceutical Spam Kings -
With access to Storm Worm sold and resold, and new malware introduced on Storm Worm infected hosts used as foundation for the propagation of the new malware in this case, it's questionable whether or not the Storm Worm-ers themselves are sending out the junk emails, or are they people who've rented access to the botnet doing it.

31. Neosploit Team Leaving the IT Underground -
Pretty surprising at the first place, but in reality it clearly demonstrates that when you cannot enforce the end user agreement on your crimeware kit, but continue seeing it used in a very profitable malware operations, you basically shut down the support for the public version. The team is not going to stop innovating for their own purposes, and in the long-term they may in fact re-appear with an updated malware kit that's converging different services next to the product itself.

32. Dissecting a Managed Spamming Service -
Managed spamming services using botnets as the foundation for the campaigns are starting to introduce improved metrics for the delivery, as well as experienced customer support ensuring the spam messages make it through spam filters, or at least increase the probability of making the happen. This is an example of a random service emphasizing on the improved metrics they're capable of delivering.

33. Storm Worm's Lazy Summer Campaigns -
Looks like a "cybercrime intern" launched this campaign, lacking any of the usual Storm Worm evasive practices, no exploitation of client side vulnerabilities, as well as no survivability offered by their usual fast-flux nodes.

]]> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:08:24 +0000 malware profitable malware operations malware authors malware tools malware coder malware kit malware infection neosploit malware kit spam Summarizing July's Threatscape <![CDATA[Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd]]> http://securityratty.com/article/6215851b79c397250e5f1b5a07d047b4 http://securityratty.com/article/6215851b79c397250e5f1b5a07d047b4

The result of building extra confidence into your malicious hosting provider's ability to remain online, is a scammy ecosystem that's constantly jumping from one netblock to another, whose very latest exploit URLs and rogue security software nexto to the codecs served, always represent a decent sample of malicious activities to analyze.

UkrTeleGroup Ltd (85.255.112.0-85.255.127.255 UkrTeleGroup UkrTeleGroup Ltd. 27595 ASN ATRIVO), a personal favorite due to its historical connection with the Russian Business Network, and hosting provider for a countless of number of injected and malware embedded campaigns during the last two years, is still keeping it as lazy as possible, a laziness allowing you to easily expose a great deal of the malicious activities going on there, and establish the connections between the hosting provider, its current and historical customers.

Take microsoftcodecs.com (88.214.198.220) for instance, and avxp08.com where it redirects the user into yet another rogue security software. avxp08.com is responding to 194.110.162.114; 216.195.41.11; 216.195.41.11; 216.240.139.169, and to UkrTeleGroup Ltd's 85.255.117.163.

Each of these IPs are also being shared by other rogue software and fake codecs simultaneously :

(216.195.41.11)
antivirusxp2008 .com
malwareprotector2008 .com
antivirxp08 .com
antivirusxp08 .com
avxp08 .com
youpornztube .com
winifixer .com
advancedxpfixer .com
encountertracker .ws

It gets even more UkrTeleGroup Ltd related upon the malware (Trojan:Win32/Tibs.HK) served at the avxp08.com gets sandboxed. The malware phones back home stat.avxp08 .com (85.255.118.172) announcing the successful infection winifixer .com/log2.php?affid=980382bdb4e7b779ff6308b0b706571c&uid=06f80eaf-94d7-4b8b-9cf0-5c6f75d2c69f&tm=1211198022 (85.255.118.171), and the scammy ecosystem continues using the same hosting provider. The rest of the rogue tools are also using the same subdomain structure, and IP, stat.antivirusxp2008 .com (85.255.118.172), stat.antivirxp08 .com (85.255.118.172), stat.antivirusxp08 .com (85.255.118.172) in order to phone back home.

winifixer .com, a well known rogue software, is entirely relying on UkrTeleGroup's hosting services hosted at 85.255.117.163; 85.255.118.171; 85.255.120.115; 85.255.120.139; 216.195.41.11 pinpoing several other obvious and well known netblocks hosting anything starting from fake celebrity video sites serving fake Windows Media Player videos, to rogue security software and live exploit URLs. Take for instance their efficiency centered approach to park numerous malicious domains on a single IP, like 85.255.117.218 in this case :

bestfunnyvids .com
celebs69 .com
celebsnofake .com
celebstape .com
celebsvidsonline .com
codecservice1 .com
freevidshardcore .com
newfunnyvideo .com
sexlookupworld .com
starfeed1 .com
starfeed2 .com
topdirectdownload .com
topsearchresults1 .com
topsoftupdate .com
yourfavoritetube .com

Now that it's becoming clear who's providing the hosting infrastructure, it's perhaps also worth pointing out who's using the hosting infrastructure to serve rogue security software and fake codecs on the basis of participating in an affiliate program? A great number of domains used by the rogue security software are registered by krab@thekrab.com behind which is supposidely Mishakov Viktor Ivanovich support@tobesoftware.com, and ironically tobesoftware.com is again hosting within UkrTeleGroup (85.255.120.115). The personal efforts into the number of the typosquatted domains and the persistence applied when registered and spamming them across the web, is the result of the incentives provided to them by the affiliate program they participate in.

]]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:12:02 +0000 ukrtelegroup codecs fake codecs simultaneously rogue security software ukrtelegroup ukrtelegroup fake codecs home home stat scammy ecosystem Lazy Summer Days at UkrTeleGroup Ltd