Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute gameswith trojaned boxes

Thu Oct 9 20:24:22 UTC 2003

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, John Neiberger wrote:

Doing some Googling on tubul I found:

WAP S.A.
Katarzyna Piatek (tubul at wp.pl)
+48.327811019
FAX- +48.327811025
Opolska 22
Katowice, 40-084
PL

-Hank

> >Actually, in the case of the wired article (removeform.com), it seems
> to be
> >connected to a site in Florida.I asked my programmer
> (gabor at sentex.net)
> >to decode the obfuscated java script/page that is served up by one of
> the
> >zombies (On FreeBSD fetch -B 18192 -o danger.html
> >http://www.removeform.com/d - I got it from 207.5.215.72at the
> time).I 
> >have attached it as a zip file with its contents. You will note that
> the
> >form post goes back to
> >
> >form action="http://207.36.47.68/cgi-bin/addinfo.cgi"
> >
> >
> >OrgName:  CyberGate, Inc.
> >OrgID:    CYBG
> >Address:  3250 W. Commercial Blvd. Suite 200
> >City:     Ft. Lauderdale
> >StateProv:FL
> >PostalCode: 33309
> >Country:  US
> 
> This appears to be a rather prolific spammer. At first I thought they
> were affiliated with www.skynetweb.com because they have the same
> address, including suite number, but it now appears that they are really
> affiliated with these guys:
> 
> http://www.affinity.com/about/our_team/our_team.htm
> 
> John
> --
> 

Hank Nussbacher