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Following a bouncing Waledac

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 1:00pm by Pedro Bueno
Pedro Bueno

You know that your malware investigation day will be a pain when you reach the first iframe on the webpage…

This one was pointing:

iframe src=”http://[REMOVED].cn/in.cgi?[REMOVED]

This iframe is a redirect to:

http:// [REMOVED].hostindianet.com/index.php?[REMOVED]

Now it gets interesting. This url contains a script that will send a PDF file, called readme.pdf. As an additional note, this pdf looks like part of the Luckysploit kit.

Readme.pdf is a malicious PDF file as you can imagine.

Dissecting it, there is a shellcode, with several functions like:

-GetTempPathA

-LoadLibraryA

-GetProcAddress

-WinExec

And our friend URLDownloadToFileA , which as the name implies, downloads something form a url to a file :)

The url is : http:// [REMOVED2].hostindianet.com/l[REMOVED2]?id=4 and id=5

Following these urls, it was possible to find out that both id=4 and id=5 returned the same file, which is one variant of the Waledac.

And yes, both Malicious PDF and the downloaded file are detected by us :)

And yes2, REMOVED and REMOVED2 are different blocks.

An additional thanks to my friend Tom Liston for the title. I will always remember the Bouncing following malware series…;)

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Comments (2)

  • jdb2009 April 17, 2009 1:33PM

    Why is this likely LuckySploit? LuckySploit is quite sophisticated including the use of encryption between client and server.

  • sathish April 13, 2009 2:19AM

    How to remove iframe , I got affected in most of my websites. Even after removing the frame, it is getting inserted again and again automatically.