Gumblar Companion Finally Shutting Down?
As mentioned in a previous blog post:
The gumblar.cn compromise may also be accompanied by malicious iframes that load exploits and malware from domains hosted at 213.182.197.23, including liteautotop.cn, bigtruckstopseek.cn, autobestwestern.cn and several others.
While the gumblar.cn and martuz.cn domains have been shutdown for over a week now, these other companion compromises continued to proliferate. Malware domain names include liteautotop.cn, bigtruckstopseek.cn, autobestwestern.cn, bestlitediscover.cn, bigpremiumlite.cn, bigtopartists.cn, bigtopcabaret.cn, bigtopsuper.cn, giantnonfat.cn, hugebestbuys.cn, litebest.cn, litetopautoseek.cn, superdietfind.cn, and yourlitetopfind.cn.
Most recently, the attackers split the domain list and began hosting them on two IP addresses.: 70.85.142.250 and 86.106.121.200, both of which share the nameserver IP 91.212.65.14. They also employed multiple other nameservers at the following IPs:
213.163.91.91
209.44.126.7
213.182.197.23
202.73.57.20
95.129.144.211
The tactic could be likened to a home-grown bullet proof hosting scheme. But fortunately, it appears the nameservers themselves are now being shutdown. This is good news, because this raises the attackers cost of doing business. At some point, if costs are high enough, these particular attacks will cease.
It's a bit like playing Whack-a-Mole though. As one set of attack domains is brought down, others come online. In the first two weeks of May, ScanSafe STAT observed 919 separate Web attacks - Gumblar and these companion attacks represented just 3 of the 919 total attacks that occurred during this period.

Mary Landesman
Reader Comments (1)
I don't understand why SHA1 of sqlsodbc.chm has to be found using the FileAlyzer program, when right clicking the file and looking at properties shows (in my case) that the file has 46133 Bytes, which corresponds to this entry in your list: 87230AD4C2646376B819DDA4963DD2C49BC50D7A 46133, so I think it indicates no infection, right?
BTW, what is SHA1?
Thanks for your help,
Eldad