Blackhat SEO Redirects to Malware and Rogue Software

Fugitif · 6 Jun 2008

Blackhat SEO Redirects to Malware and Rogue Software

A black SEO farm with built-in redirection to a multitude of sites serving rogue codecs (Zlob malware variants) and fake security software phoning back to UkrTeleGroup Ltd's network - could it get even more interesting? Of course, as the current state of Zlob malware serving tactics can be seperated in two distinct groups, those abusing the "sort of" zero day Flash exploit, as the currently active SQL injection attacks are all taking advantage of it, and those still relying on plain simple redirect to multimedia sites requiring you to install the fake codec.
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While tracking down the massive blackhat SEO poisoning campaigns that took place in March, 2008, as well as the countless number of embedded/injected malware campaigns targeting high profile sites that we've been seeing recently, it's becoming increasingly common to come across a repeating malicious pattern. Basically, a domain portfolio of typosquatted domains looking like legitimate codec sites is created, several bogus video, mostly p0rn related sites with no content start acting as a frontend to the codecs, where traffic is driven through blackhat SEO doorways. Moreover, rogue codec sites are increasing because the templates for the p0rn and codec sites are turning into a commodity, just like phishing pages and DIY phishing page generators lowering down the entry barriers into these practices..
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