full-disclosure - unknown windows rootkit

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Date: Sun Nov 20 13:20:19 2005
From: api at worldonline.de (Axel Pettinger)
Subject: unknown windows rootkit

> sk / GroundZero wrote:
> 
> We found what seems to be a unknown rootkit on a
> customer system which was windows 2000 sp4.
> It is a kernel resident infector as it installs itself as
> hidden device driver operating in kernel level to hide
> its directories and programs aswell as network connections.
> For our research we named it Win32/McSport-A.

The family name of your rootkit trojan is "Apropos". It seems to belong 
to the Adware/Spyware category.

> More Detailed informations aswell as removal instructions
> can be found here: http://www.groundzero-security.com/mcsport.html

Description of other Apropos variants:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/spyware.apropos.c.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_134133.htm

Regards,
Axel Pettinger