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philly12

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False positive or real infection on popular site?
« on: July 04, 2012, 02:40:48 AM »
My gf was going to "people of walmart" and it came up with an infection alert (on the main page). Is this correct or a false positive because this is a very popular site? I have attached pics below.

The pics have to be small for the small size limit, but here is the info on the infection information page.

URL:<http://ibc.thuisserver.com/ba.js> (<do not go to that site people)
Process:   C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox...
Infection:   URL:Mal

Thanks for the help.

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Re: False positive or real infection on popular site?
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2012, 03:28:16 AM »
Avast! is not alerting on the site, but another site that the site is trying to connect to.
See: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=81824

GET /ba.js HTTP/1.1
Host: ibc.thuisserver.com
Referer: hXtp://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 685

Direct malware payload was on that link 2012-06-06.

Also See: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=81829

Also Returns:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 685

So it appears that the site at hand gets a cookie from the suspect site at hand.

Another Domain With The Same Behavior On The Same IP: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=29224
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Re: False positive or real infection on popular site?
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 03:33:03 AM »
so you are saying this site is fine, but has links to a malware site, or is it only a bad cookie?

And I typed in the url directly into the Url bar (did not use a link to get to the people of walmart site).

Excuse my stupidity...lol


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Re: False positive or real infection on popular site?
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2012, 03:46:06 AM »
The site has a link to a site that has hosted malware in the past. However, avast! blocks this IP. With it returning a cookie, which I assume would be used for another site called by the site so to check the referrer of the URL. In similar theory:
Main Site --> Cookie Payload --> Main Site --> Cookie Get --> Do Something When Returned True

In simple terms, while avast! is blocking the "thuisserver" site, you should be able to browse safely, considering the factor mentioned above.
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Re: False positive or real infection on popular site?
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2012, 03:48:23 AM »
Thank you for explaining it to me Donovan. I appreciate the help :) . Have a good 4th of July (if you celebrate it).

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Re: False positive or real infection on popular site?
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2012, 04:06:04 AM »
Your Welcome. Glad I could help. :)
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Re: False positive or real infection on popular site?
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2012, 05:52:09 PM »
Hi !Donovan,

The malware of that Russian domain: htxp://ibc.thuisserver.com/ba.js  is now dead. Closed since: 2012-06-06 20:11:38

Suricata/ w Emerging Threats - alert severity 3
2012-07-04 03:24:21    92.241.177.162    urlQuery Client   3   ET RBN Known Russian Business Network IP (430)

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