User:Entropy/blacklist

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What?
Recently there have been a number of anons and users who have all performed very similar sorts of vandal-actions. I suspect that they are all controlled by the same person, and/or that they are automated scripts, bots, etc. Sockpuppetry by itself is not a bannable offense, however, malicious intent and repeated vandalism is. Moreover, uploading an executable file which contained a self-extracting RAR archive is extremely dubious.

It is believed at this time that the bot/script/whatever is of Korean origin.
 * 1) Usage of South Korea flag
 * 2) Uploading Korean MMO related registry keys in the executable
 * 3) Korean transliteration usernames

Characteristics
Nonsensical edits like this, placed randomly or replacing a section header:




 * The image is anything, totally random. Sometimes they may upload their own. The uploaded images will have nonsense names.
 * Notice the thumb|left|17px (the px can vary, as can the left/right alignment). This is a consistent pattern.
 * Usually there will be one vandalism edit like this to a random page, followed by an edit to the user's userpage which is the same kind of edit.
 * Seems to target/use the hi-res skill icons?
 * Creates a nonsense spam article with just the image as content.

Registered accounts

 * 1) User:Kimsaejung
 * 2) User:HANSAEWOO
 * 3) User:Ikki999
 * 4) User:Hoho999

Anons

 * 1) User:60.53.70.142
 * 2) User:60.53.65.202

Known targets

 * 1) Ki
 * 2) Ju
 * 3) 32132132
 * 4) Lolzss
 * Image:Hi-res-Bane Signet.jpg
 * Image:Hi-res-Holy Spear.jpg
 * Image:647759605-1-.jpg - Naruto image
 * Image:ThumbnailCA0ZK5WF.jpg - Naruto image
 * Image:Start.exe - Korean MMO registry keys

Images used

 * Image:Hi-res-Holy_Spear.jpg
 * Image:Hi-res-Anguish.jpg
 * Image:Inscription_(blue).jpg
 * Image:Mesmer_Ascended_Virtuosos_Female_FrontDyedBlue.jpg
 * Image:South_Korea_70x40.png
 * Image:RH-Shoop.png
 * Image:Gold dragon.jpg - guildcape?
 * Image:Hi-res-Zealous_Anthem.jpg
 * Image:Eagle_Defender_colored.jpg
 * Image:180px-Zombie_breakin_sign.jpg
 * Image:Example.jpg
 * Image:ThumbnailCA6V3Y8L.jpg - Converse anklepatch

Contents of executable file
contents of this section copied selectively from User talk:Entropy


 * Not necessarily. It would have been simple to download the file and scan it, then we would have known for certain. --◄mendel► 17:59, 24 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have done that, and it did not contain a virus. That doesn't mean it wasn't malware, though.  It is a self-extracting RAR archive.  I found this in the "Comments" tab of the file properties window:

;The comment below contains SFX script commands

Setup=Host.exe Setup=Regedit.exe -s -i Reg.reg Setup=Login.exe Silent=1 Overwrite=1
 * I believe that means that once it finishes extracting, it will automatically run all of the "Setup=" commands, and it will do so silently. Looks like it might be a keylogger or password cracker of some sort.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 18:35, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Scanning the start.exe with a virus scanning might've been interesting, and so would have extracting it with winzip or winrar or some other extraction utitility - that would avoid the automatic running of the setup. I am unsure if that was an attempt to attack the server - as far as I know, they run a unixoid OS, so a file with no extension would have been more helpful there. As it is, what you wrote makes it more probable that this is malware, but it's not certain yet. --◄mendel► 09:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Ishmael has a copy of the file so he could probably run any further diagnostics that you think would be interesting. I don't know what exactly its intent was, but I do think that whatever it was, it certainly wasn't meant to be a good thing. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 02:29, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I hadn't thought of opening with WinRAR, so... well. It actually only has one file in it, Reg.reg, unlike the three I'd expected from the SFX script I posted above.  Here are the contents of the file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GamaSoft\MP-Client] "Folder(P2)"="E:\\Game\\CIB\\RYL2"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GamaSoft\MP-Client(MY)] "Folder"="E:\\Game\\CIB\\RYL2" "Width"=dword:00000400 "Height"=dword:00000300 "Depth"=dword:00000010 "GamePort"=dword:00004e22 "DlgControl"=dword:02d7030b "QuickSlot"=dword:02d701cd "Status"=dword:02d70000 "Enchant"=dword:00740000 "Chat"=dword:025e01cd "Vertical"=dword:00000000 "ChatDlgType"=dword:00000001 "VisibleFlag"=dword:0000000d "Adapter"="NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT" "Refresh"=dword:0000003c "InitValue"=hex:00,04,00,00,00,03,00,00,10,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,88,b7,d4,77 "RenderOption"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,09,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\  00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 "SiegeTime"=dword:0001005a "StatusDlgExLv"=dword:00000000 "Folder(P2)"="E:\\Game\\CIB\\RYL2"
 * Looks like it's just some registry keys for the MMO Risk Your Life, which looks like it's just another Korean cookie-cutter. So nothing malicious, but still worthy of deletion.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 02:55, 26 September 2008 (UTC)