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| | Category |  | Exploit | | Discovered | | 4/7/2008 5:51:00 PM | | Modified | | 4/8/2008 4:44:00 PM | | Threat Level | | Medium | | Description | | Exploits use vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications to achieve the same result. Or in other words, this is a type of malware containing a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software. This frequently includes such things as gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack. | | Summary | | The hosts file was updated with the following url-to-ip mappings:
127.0.0.1 www.
The following http urls were started:
e.987255.com
Generated smtp traffic: n/a
Connection(s) established with remote IRC Server: n/a
The following hidden entries created: n/a
The following internet connection was established:
68.178.211.72:1610(winhostecn72.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net)
| | When the Exploit is executed, it creates the following files: | | Name | Version | Publisher | Signature (MD5) | File Size (in Bytes) | | ..\86459747.exe | | | ceded860c3f0e03e70cc56170999d5be | | | ..\bd3d758b.exe | | | be14abc6ecc35b8dfb84a8ecfc83d8a4 | | | ..\c9828ca5.exe | | | 8633727fd524285f6f20a269c4647bd6 | | | ..\system\kb930.vxd | | | d6a3994e64de60a41300de9363b554de | |
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| | When the Exploit is executed, it creates the following Registry entries: | | |
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