Spotify Adsystem spreads malware

Discussion in 'malware problems & news' started by Ibrad, Mar 25, 2011.

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  1. Ibrad

    Ibrad Registered Member

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  2. elapsed

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    Wow.. that's pretty serious. Especially considering the ads seemed to be hand picked for Spotify in specific you'd think that would get noticed. Oh well, glad I have a no-ad subscription.

    Good thing I don't install Java on machines anymore I guess.
     
  3. J_L

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    That's one of the reasons I always block ads.
     
  4. dw426

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    Those of us in the U.S don't have to worry about it, thankfully. The way things are going with the delays in launching here, we may never have to.
     
  5. elapsed

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    Is the "name" of the threat documented anywhere?
     
  6. 3x0gR13N

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    A cocktail of them:
    http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/6158/Malvertizing_Continued_Spotify_s_Ad_Networks_Outed
     
  7. m00nbl00d

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    Even if many people would be protected against the exploits, if they were using ClearCloud DNS, access to those domains in the .cc TLD would be blocked.

    ClearCloud DNS blocks access to ALL .cc TLD.
    * I need to verify something. I hope I'm not confusing with *.co.cc - Yes, it was my confusion... I associated .cc with co.cc (because the service is -http://www.co.cc). I apologize for the confusion. :(

    By the way, I'm trying to find out which domains. Has anyone found a source mentioning them?
     
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  8. Ibrad

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  9. Essentials

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    Hi all,

    I think I have been infected by spotify, this morning my microsoft security essentials catched something so I did a quick scan and these is what I have:
    http://img689.imageshack.us/i/sinttuloqh.png/

    I have EMET monitoring javaw.exe, did it stop the attack or I am really infected? I use MSE 2.0 and Malwarebytes PRO(active).
     
  10. m00nbl00d

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    Hello Essentials

    Hopefully, both EMET and MSE prevented what they had to prevent, but be aware that EMET is not foolproof, and it will fail, at some point. Look here https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1831563&postcount=43
     
  11. elapsed

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    Don't know if it makes a difference but I'm going to add Spotify to EMET on machines from now on.
     
  12. mick92z

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    I always force spotify to run in sandoxie :thumb:
     
  13. doktornotor

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    Hmmmm... I noticed that in certain setups even proxy autodiscovery appears quite dangerous when combined with bad DNS wildcard records and moronic webhosting provider.

    Well, whatever. What is going on is basically that:

    - you have DHCP enabled
    - your browser searches for proxy configuration via proxy autodiscovery, doing that, they query wpad hostname for configuration file location. The file is - per RFC - called wpad.dat
    - the domain name your IT added your machine to is appended to the lookup, so that you get wpad.example.com query
    - your DNS has a wildcard DNS record that points to the moronic webhosting provider (mkay, wildcard records are bad... yet still commonplace *:p)
    - the webhosting for whatever reason happily serves the same parking index page no matter what your try to GET - instead of proper 404 Not Found code :rolleyes:

    You can see this setup in action @ GoDaddy.com

    Yeah, they happily serve their stupid parking page including third-party ads for any request you send.

    If you are lucky, your AV catches that and aborts the connection... otherwise, congratulations, you just got infected by doing nothing else than starting your browser. :argh:
     
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  15. drkoopz

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    Malverts are probably one of the most common ways i've seen friends and family get infected with fake av and other trojans. My mom personally got malverts almost daily from a program called Paltalk on her computer that she used. Eventually I uninstalled the program and had her use Paltalk Express using Google Chrome which was much safer.

    I personally pay and use ad muncher so i've really never run into malicious advertisements, but it just reaffirms my decision to block advertisements until web companies can work to make their revenue model safer and less intrusive.
     
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