We've been spending most of the past week pulling apart Trojan.Dozer in order to get a full understanding of what its purpose is. Its most publicized feature is the DDOS attacks it performs against a number of sites. But after some further research we've found some other sinister features in the form of an old school time bomb.
First of all, the trojan will check if system time is after July 10th 2009 00:00:00. If it's after this time then the threat will begin its real mischief. It first searches files with the following extensions:
A new Trojan Horse called Backdoor.Robofohas been spammed out today, which uses a variety of social engineeringtactics to aid its propagation. First it masquerades as an email fromthe US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including the use of the IRSlogo in the message body to make it appear more legitimate:
The use of legalese in the message content may intimidate some usersinto opening the attachment. The attachment is called COMPLAINT.rtfand, when launched, displays the following bogus error message:
Technologies come and go, but socialengineering remains the most popular technique used to propagatemalware. This tried and trusted method has been around since theLoveletter days, and malware authors don't seem to be giving up on itjust yet. This year we've seen Trojan.Peacommin a number of guises – from videos of current news stories topostcards from loved ones. However, the one "disguise" that we see mostconsistently is in the form of the humble invoice.
Recently, we've seen a spate of malware circulating (in Germany inparticular), masquerading as various invoices. The year started with aspam run of Trojan.Schoeberl.Epurporting to be a bill from German ISP 1&1. Since then, we've seenmalware disguised as bills from a variety of firms...
Today has seen another large-scale spamming of Trojan.Peacomm, aka the "Storm Trojan". With Valentine's Day approaching, this time around the authors are attempting to tug on the heartstrings of unsuspecting users with romantic subject lines such as "My Heart belongs to you" and "Together You and I". The mail body is empty and the attachments have the usual names of "Greeting Card.exe", "Postcard.exe", and "Greeting Postcard.exe".
The Trojan is much the same as we've seen before, the only difference being that the authors have used a modified packer in an (unsuccessful) effort to evade detection by AntiVirus vendors. These latest samples are proactively detected as Bloodhound.Packed.13 with Rapid Release definitions dated 02/07/2007 (revision 54). Definitions dated 02/08/2007 (revision 25) and later will...
Closely following McDonalds' trouble with infected MP3 players, Apple has now confirmed that a small number of Video iPods were shipped with malware onboard. According to an announcement on the Apple support site, Video iPods purchased after September 12th could potentially contain a copy of W32.Rajump. Like W32.Pasobir, the worm found on the McDonalds MP3 players, it too has the ability to copy itself to removable USB drives. Apple is recommending that users run an antivirus scan of their Video iPod before use.
McDonalds' customers in Japan recently found themselves exposed to a worm infection when MP3 players, offered as a prize in a drink promotion, were found to contain a worm called W32.Pasobir. This isn't the first time we've seen hardware devices and media accidentally shipped with malware. One of the more famous incidents occurred back in 1998, when the W95.Marburg virus was accidentally shipped on some game CDs, including CDs offered free with gaming magazines. More recently (again, in Japan) hard drive manufacturer I-O Data accidentally shipped a number of hard disks containing a back door Trojan horse. In most circumstances the malware itself is old, in which case any up-to-date antivirus program should prevent infection...
