Ghost Rat trojan used in huge spy ring stoppable?

Discussion in 'malware problems & news' started by true north, Mar 31, 2009.

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  1. true north

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    I scrolled through, and found mention to a pdf/doc file, but nothing on how it works. Is it .doc macro -> download trojan.exe -> install ?
     
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    It seems they used embedded trojan downloader in DOC files and used PDF exploits to install the malware.

    More info at Sunbelt Blog. Alex has made available the whole 53 page indepth report there (along with the synopsis I had posted earlier)
    http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/ghostnet.html
     
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  5. Dogbiscuit

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    In one email attachment documented here (Page 21), the exploit code made use of a 2 1/2 year old known vulnerability, CVE-2006-2492, that affected Microsoft Word and Microsoft Works.

    It looks as if the machine in question was not up to date with software patches, and that's how opening a document compromised the system, at least in this case.
     
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