full-disclosure - Mystery DNS Changes

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From: prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk (Randal, Phil)
Subject: Mystery DNS Changes

NAI has this as QHosts-1, and says MS03-032 does NOT protect against it:

  http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Stewart [mailto:jstewart@...hq.com]
> Sent: 01 October 2003 21:34
> To: full-disclosure-orig@...sys.com
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mystery DNS Changes
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 01 October 2003 03:19 pm, Hansen, Kevin wrote:
> > We have seen multiple instances where DHCP enabled workstations have
> > had their DNS reconfigured to point to two of the three addresses
> > listed below. Can anyone else confirm this? Incidents.org is
> > reporting an increase in port 53 traffic over the last two days. Are
> > we looking at the precursor to the next worm?
> >
> > 216.127.92.38
> > 69.57.146.14
> > 69.57.147.175
> 
> The top DNS server change was made by a newer variant of the 
> Delude/Startpage trojan. It used to add bogus entries in the 
> system32\drivers\etc\hosts file, but lately has begun to change the 
> user's DNS registry settings as well. It hijacks the user's 
> traffic to 
> and from major search engines, redirecting it to a single webserver 
> under the control of the trojan author. Any requested search 
> pages have 
> popup ads for gambling/porn site registration, presumably because the 
> trojan author is getting money for registrations via affiliate 
> programs.
> 
> It is being installed via the MS03-032 IE object tag exploit. 
> A scan of 
> the system may not turn up any infected files - this trojan does not 
> run at startup, and deletes its files after the DNS/hosts 
> configuration 
> changes are complete.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> -- 
> Joe Stewart, GCIH 
> Senior Security Researcher
> LURHQ Corporation
> http://www.lurhq.com/
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