Security Incidents: Re: Anyone seen this before?

[Sergey Latkin <slatkin () phg com>]

Michael

> > It is facing the public
> > so the standard extra precautions have been taken.
[and]
> This machine is generally locked down both physically and electronically.
> You just can't walk up to the machine and log in.  So where ever it came
> from was not installed interactively and is hidden somewhere.
What did you mean by "it is facing the public"? Showcase display? Public 
network service? Or it is just connected to Internet as a client w/o firewall?

now, let's go in a different direction. Is the active desktop enabled there?
Try to locate shell extensions in the registry. Application name shown in a 
task mgr is actually a window title/caption and may have no connection with 
the executable file name. It may be helpful if you can run some 
debugging/development tool such as MS Spy++ to show all the windows and their 
processes.

Sergey

On 3 July 2002 10:14, Michael  B. Morell wrote:
> Thx.... But there is no folder located on that system named 'address',   I
> know where you are going with this but it's not the correct path.
>
> The icon is a generic program icon.
>
> HC asked - What do you mean by "linked"?  What does this mean,
> and what did you do (or what tool did you use) to
> verify or discover this?
>
> The answer to this is, in task manager, you can right click on any app
> running in the applications window, and choose "go to process".
> The process that I was brought to was explorer.exe.
>
> If i kill explorer.exe (which get's rid of my desktop as expected) the
> address app is also killed.  If I start explorer.exe up again, the app
> reappears.
>
> I was unable to find any shell= reference in the registry.  No programs
> that even remotely resemble what I am seeing exist on this machine.
>
> This machine is generally locked down both physically and electronically.
> You just can't walk up to the machine and log in.  So where ever it came
> from was not installed interactively and is hidden somewhere.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergey Latkin [mailto:slatkin () phg com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 7:15 PM
> To: Michael B. Morell
> Cc: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Anyone seen this before?
>
>
> Michael
>
> If you open folder named 'address' in explorer, the task mgr will show
> exactly what you described. BTW, what icon was shown next to the app?
>
> Sergey
>
> On 2 July 2002 18:04, Michael  B. Morell wrote:
> > I found a odd application running on a 2k server box that I have not seen
> > before, or is at least not
> > obvious to me.
> >
> > In task mgr, The application 'address' (w/o quotes) is running and is
> > linked to the explorer.exe proc.
> >
> > <!--begin the obvious-->
> [snip the obvious :]]
>
> > <!--end the obvious-->
> >
> > If anyone has seen this before please let me know.  A search on google
> > did not provide
> > any solid leads.  I did follow thru on checking for known code
> > red/nimda/things that were
> > close but not really leads.
> >
> > I appreciate any insight from the list.
> >
> > Oh, and please don't bother to tell me to blow away the OS and start from
> > scratch.
> > While I appreciate the suggestion, i'm looking for leads, not the
> > obvious.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
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