Vulnerability Development: RE: Suspicious JOe.exe

["Petruzel, Oliver" <OliverP () aegisresearch com>]

actually, -i think-, that the operator made it invite only in order to make
the trojan disfunctional... i believe same solution was used for #kaiten and
#knight

oliver p.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: OblivionO () aol com [mailto:OblivionO () aol com]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:38 PM
> To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Suspicious JOe.exe
>
>
> I ran a hex editor on a copy of Joe.exe that was sent to me 
> and although i 
> found most of the same information as the strings command, i 
> was unable to 
> find the request of invite. Upon entering the iRC network 
> that joe.exe is 
> connecting to i tried to enter channel "#penr0x". It is 
> invite only, whcih 
> leads me to believe that when the zombie connects to irc it 
> sends a request 
> to a bot or botnetwork with a specific phrase, ordering the 
> botnet to invite 
> it to #penr0x.... My question is where would this phrase/nick 
> be located in 
> the file? i cant seem to find it although it seems to me that 
> it should be in 
> plain text...
>
>  ~ Chris