Re: cuebot-d infection method

Jeff -

  I've just cleaned up four machines here, all Windows 2000. We're
scratching our heads, as the "published" propagation method is over port
445, which wasn't open on the firewall. 

  We suspect it may have come through the client's VPN access, or maybe
someone wrapped this backdoor in another exploit for delivery.

Thanks,
  Matt

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:03, Jeff Bryner wrote:
> I've seen a couple cuebot-d infections over the last couple days and am
> trying to track down the source of them. Has anyone seen enough of this
> to know the universe of ways the pc gets initially infected?
>
> The pcs that have gotten infected have mcafee running on them  which
> incorrectly picks it up as W32/Sdbot.worm.gen.by when a scan is
> requested. It didn't seem to pick it up *until* a scan was requested.
>
> The writeup at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32cuebotd.html
> fits the scenario, but it doesn't say exactly what the initial
> infection vector is.
>
> Thanks for any help. 
>
> Jeff
> CISSP, GCIH, GCFA