Tag Archives: malscript

riotassistance.ru infections

We’ve been seeing more website infections with a malscript that looks like: (opening script tag) src=”hxxp:// riotassistance.ru /Website.js”>(closing script tag) Note: We’ve also seen this same this but with nuttypiano replacing riotassistance. Sometimes the last part: Website.js is something else: … Continue reading

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toobarcom, mybar, adsnet infections

Over the past week or so, we’ve been fighting a new website infection. At first, it appeared to be infecting just one hosting provider, but as we investigated further, we found it was affecting websites on many hosting providers. I’m … Continue reading

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osCommerce v2.2 Website Infections

During the past 10 days we started seeing a number of websites using osCommerce v2.2 being infected. The infection usually included some randomly named folder with a list of files in them. Some of the folder names we’ve seen include: … Continue reading

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Hackers now "touch" all files

This is going to be a short post. While working on cleaning a number of websites this past week, I’ve noticed something very different. One of the steps we take when cleaning a website is to record the last modified … Continue reading

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The "onload if this" website infection

Of course the title of this post is only part of the infection. The typical type of infection I’m going to discuss first looks more like this: The domain this iframe directs to and the long string of characters (kzjev…) before … Continue reading

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The new Attack – d0lphin.biz

We recently came across a number of websites that have been injected with malscript iframes that load malware from d0lphin.biz. Following is our report on this attack.   Cybercriminals appear to be using their network of infected PCs to modify … Continue reading

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Another Round of Beladen? Or, The New "Go" Infection

On Wednesday July 22, 2009 we started seeing what looks to be a new round of beladen style website infections by cybercriminals. The reason we think they’re beladen style is that they appear to infect all the websites on shared … Continue reading

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The Blame Game

Major Malware Outbreaks Evade Anti-Virus Protection A report released on July 14, 2009 states that “Several successive and massive malware outbreaks caused a spike in malware that was undetected by major AV engines.” In Commtouch’s Q2 Report available here , which … Continue reading

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The Errors of Error Pages

Over the past few months, the number of sites infected with malscripts has increased dramatically. Many of these injection infections are difficult to track. Unbeknownst to many site operators, “error pages” can actually complicate the detection process. This blog posting … Continue reading

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A New Spin on martuz Website Infection

We were tasked with helping a website owner find all the malscripts on his site and remove them. He, like many, learned that his site was an infectious website delivering malicious code with an email from Google. This website owner … Continue reading

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