On 06/06/06, Patrick Beam <patrick.beam@gmail.com> wrote:
Came in this morning to find a windows 2003 server I manage scanning the
Internet for machines listening on tcp 139 and 445. While looking at the
machine I noticed the following processes running.
Mwvsta.exe found in c:\windows\system32
rundll16.exe c:\windows\system23
Ponoas.exe c:\windows\system32
I believe that the ponoas.exe is some sort of rootkit although searching on
google for this file name returns nothing. Also searching
mwvsta.exereturns nothing. At this point I have removed these files
from the system and registry but am weary that the server will get hit again.
To be sure, you need to re-install from known-good media.
Has anyone had an experience with the following file or have any idea what
rookkit of
virus they are associated with?
Some viruses use random filenames. If you've deleted them then there's
no way to tell for sure what they were - if you do have them, send the
files to http://www.virustotal.com/ for a diagnosis - though I would
still re-install the box.
cheers,
Jamie
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Jamie Riden / jamesr@europe.com / jamie.riden@computer.org
NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/
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