full-disclosure - Spyware installs with no interaction in IE on fully patched XP SP2 box

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From: Michael.Simpson at inveresk.com (Michael Simpson)
Subject: Spyware installs with no interaction in IE on fully
 patched XP SP2 box

nope, there is no error message when accessing this site as a user - just 
a very quick flash of a pop-up going to wepdt(?).gator.something.
  There doesn't appear to be any trace on this computer of any of the 
files mentioned previously so i guess that you may need to be running as 
admin to get the download.

cheers, 

mikie



"Carr, Robert" <rcarr@...il.uky.edu> 
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04/10/2004 15:23

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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Spyware installs with no interaction in IE on fully 
patched XP SP2 box







Interesting...

I just went there, and he's right. Atpartners.cab installed without
permission. My McAfee picked it right up as Atpartners.dll, downloaded
to Temp Internet files. Spyware detected as NetPals. On the other hand,
I'm admin of my machine, I wonder if a "user" would get an error message
about not having the correct rights...

Thanks,
 
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Geraldo
Rivera
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 9:47 AM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Spyware installs with no interaction in
IE on fully patched XP SP2 box

themexp.org

I should have logged all the files and reg entries I deleted, but it was

late at night and I wasn't really thinking about that at the time. I
just 
checked my IE history for some of the things I googled and I found a
bunch 
of them:

SahAgent.exe
webrebates0.exe
lu.dat
preInsln.exe
Systb.dll
wupdater.exe
eakrfu.exe
wupdt.exe
megasearch toolbar (www.megasearchbar.com)
IEPlugin
localnrd.dll
multimpp.dll

>From: "Joel R. Helgeson" <joel@...geson.com>
>To: "Geraldo Rivera" 
><iamafraud@...mail.com>,<full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
>Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Spyware installs with no interaction in
IE 
>on fully patched XP SP2 box
>Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:13:52 -0500
>
>What was the site?
>
>Joel R. Helgeson
>Director of Networking & Security Services
>SymetriQ Corporation
>
>"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and
he'll 
>be warm for the rest of his life."
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Geraldo Rivera"
<iamafraud@...mail.com>
>To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
>Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:16 PM
>Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Spyware installs with no interaction in IE
on 
>fully patched XP SP2 box
>
>
>>Last night I went to a site that I have been to on and off for years.
The 
>>page loaded and then in IE's status bar I saw something suspicious: 
>>"installing components...atpartners.cab". I could not close out of IE,
and 
>>I could not kill the iexplorer.exe process. It totally locked up and I
had 
>>to reboot my machine. When my machine came back up, I had at least 6 
>>different pieces of spyware/adware on my machine. IT took me almost 2
hrs 
>>to clean up. I manually deleted a bunch of crap (stuff I had found
through 
>>the run key in the registry, suspicious processes running, suspicious 
>>files in the usual dir's, and by searching for all files modified at
the 
>>time this happened). Even after all that, Ad-Aware found 143 entries
(none 
>>were cookies, mostly registry entries and a few dll's) and then Spybot

>>found an additional 2 registry entries.
>>
>>This machine is a fully patched XP SP2 box, with the default security 
>>settings for IE's Internet Zone. Does anybody know what method this
crap 
>>could be using to install without any user interaction?
>>
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