On the 27th September, ICANN announced the postponement for the KSK rollover. More information can be found here.
written by Yves Bovard
No, this is not a kind of secret message nor a new ice-cream. On 11th October 2017 the root zone will be signed with a new key. Ladies and gentlemen, update your DNS resolver. As of July 11th, the new key is published in the root zone and your resolver should start updating its trust anchors automatically!
A Swiss domain holder called us today telling us that the .ch zone points to the wrong name servers for his domain.
The NS entries were ns1.dnshost[.]ga and ns2.dnshost[.]ga. We contacted the registrar and soon realized that this is not the only domain that had unauthorized changes. We identified 93 additional .ch and .li domain names that pointed to the two rogue name servers. While domain hijacking by pointing to a rogue NS is a known attack, 94 domains on a single day is very unusual. So we analyzed what the hijacked domains were used for and soon found out that they are used to infect internet users with malware.
Visitors to the hijacked domains were redirected to the Keitaro TDS (traffic distribution system):
hXXp://46.183.219[.]227/VWcjj6
A TDS decides where to redirect the visitor to, often depending on its IP address (i.e. country),
user agent and operating system.
A dead end may look like the following:
hXXp//46.183.219[.]227/favicon.ico hXXp://46.183.219[.]227/www.bingo.com
And the visitor will be redirected to Google.
However, in some cases, the visitor is redirected to the Rig Exploit Kit:
hXXp://188.225.87[.]223/?doctor&news=...&;money=...&cars=236&medicine=3848 hXXp://188.225.87[.]223/?health&news=... ...
And the visitor gets infected.
The payload is Neutrino Bot:
MD5: a32f3d0a71a16a461ad94c5bee695988 SHA256: 492081097c78d784be3996d3b823a660f52e0632410ffb2a2a225bd1ec60973d).
It gets in touch with its command and control server and grabs additional modules:
hXXp://poer23[.]tk/tasks.php hXXp://poer23[.]tk/modules/nn_grabber_x32.dll hXXp://poer23[.]tk/modules/nn_grabber_x64.dll
A little later, it also gets an update
hXXp//www.araop[.]tk/test.exe MD5: 7c2864ce7aa0fff3f53fa191c2e63b59 SHA256: c1d60c9fff65bbd0e3156a249ad91873f1719986945f50759b3479a258969b38)
The rogue NS were inserted in the .ch zone file at around 13:00 today. The registrar discovered soon what happened and rolled back the unauthorized changes. At 16:00 all of the changes in the .ch & .li zone were reverted and the NS records pointed to the legitimate name servers again.
Gandi the registrar of the 94 domain names has written a blog post, as well as SCRT the domain holder that initially informed us about the domain name hijacking of scrt.ch. SCRT also showed how Strict Transport Security protected their recurring visitors from being redirected to the bogus website!
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