Analysis by: Anthony Joe Melgarejo

ALIASES:

JS/Blacole-Redirect.u (McAfee), JS/Agent.NHD trojan (Eset)

 PLATFORM:

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:

  • Threat Type: Trojan

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This Trojan may be hosted on a website and run when a user accesses the said website.

This is the Trend Micro detection for Web pages that were compromised through the insertion of a certain IFRAME tag. Once a user visits an affected Web page, this HTML script launches a hidden IFRAME that connects to a malicious URL. It inserts an IFRAME tag that redirects users to certain URLs.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size: 13203 bytes
File Type: JS
Initial Samples Received Date: 22 Oct 2012

Arrival Details

This Trojan may be hosted on a website and run when a user accesses the said website.

Other Details

This is the Trend Micro detection for Web pages that were compromised through the insertion of a certain IFRAME tag.

Once a user visits an affected Web page, this HTML script launches a hidden IFRAME that connects to a malicious URL.

It inserts an IFRAME tag that redirects users to the following URLs:

  • http://{pseudorandom string}/in.cgi?20

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine: 9.300
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN FILE: 9.480.02
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN DATE: 22 Oct 2012
VSAPI OPR PATTERN File: 9.481.00
VSAPI OPR PATTERN Date: 23 Oct 2012

Step 1

For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users, before doing any scans, please make sure you disable System Restore to allow full scanning of your computer.

Step 2

Close all opened browser windows

Step 3

Scan your computer with your Trend Micro product to clean files detected as JS_BLACOLE.HZ. If the detected files have already been cleaned, deleted, or quarantined by your Trend Micro product, no further step is required. You may opt to simply delete the quarantined files. Please check this Knowledge Base page for more information.


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