Sony DRM phone home Bleeding Snort IDS rules

Not sure if anyone has posted this or not, but bleeding snort has released rules (a couple of days ago) that detect the sony rootkit phoning home. If you auto update your bleeding snort malware rules, you should already have it enabled. If not, it in the bleeding-malware rule set.

http://www.bleedingsnort.com/cgi-bin...RM?view=markup

I'm using both the bleeding snort rules and the delayed rules release. I didn't see anything in the official rules regarding sony's rootkit... but then again, I didn't look that hard.

I just wanted to see if any of our lusers had installed this on their machines. So far, we're looking good.

Another good article @ http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...C-499BEDA78251

Blake Hartstein from Demarc Security just added a new rule to that, the rule he added actually catches if a malicious website is trying to exploit the big vulnerablity in Acitve-X left by the removal tool.

LOL. More specifically...

Uninstaller
The uninstaller requires you to install an ActiveX control to your system before you can even request for an uninstall url. Turns out, the uninstaller activex marks itself safe for scripting, and has plenty of interesting methods available for everyone to use. Although I have not analyzed them in depth, I have tested one of them to confirm it really does what I think it does. It's called "RebootMachine". If you have installed Sony's ActiveX control, follow the link to invoke the RebootMachine method. I don't even want to know what the ExecuteCode method does...

The InstallUpdate method has a bigger security hole, see freedom-to-tinker.com's post about the uninstaller hole. They refer that trying my reboot demo to test if you're vulnerable might make things worse, this is because I copypasted the html from F4I's site so it used to prompt to install the ActiveX control. I have since changed it, since F4I could change their interfaces anytime anyway, doesn't serve any purpose to provide the install ability in the demo.

Scriptable methods left behind
The uninstaller leaves behind lots of methods, here are the names:

GenerateRequestPacket
ExecuteCode (can crash browser, apparently removed in latest ocx)
Uninstall
RebootMachine (exploitable, see demo)
GetProgress
OnLoaded
InitializeDiscScan
GetNumberOfDiscs
IsDRMServerValid
GetAlbumArtist
GetAlbumName
GetMaxBurnCount
GetCurrentBurnCount
GenerateIncrementPacket
IsContentOwnerValid
DoIncrement
GetInstalledSoftwareVersion
IsXCPDiscPresent
InstallUpdate (exploitable)
GetInstallProgress
GetCompletionStatus
IsXCPDiscPresentAsLong
IsAdministrator

Complete story here:

http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/