Additional Details
The main component of the Mare.D worm is written in C and compiled with the GNU C compiler. Mare.D consists of several components, written in C, shell script and Perl.
Propagation
Mare.D scans random hosts for vulnerable installations of the
Mambo content management system and
PHP XML-RPC. Exploiting these vulnerabilities the worm downloads a small shell script that installs the rest of the components:
- /tmp/.temp/cb - Connectback shell backdoor
- /tmp/.temp/https - IRC-controlled backdoor
- /tmp/.temp/ping.txt - Connectback shell backdoor
- /tmp/.temp/httpd - Main worm component
Payload
During infection Mare.D installs several backdoors to the compromised system. Two of them, 'cb' and 'ping.txt' are connectback shell backdoors, that connect to a remote host on 8080/TCP and open an interactive shell on the infected host. The third one is an IRC-controlled backdoor, written in Perl, which joins an IRC channel an awaits commands.
The main component of the worm also listens on 27015/UDP port for commands from the worm author. Through this port the attacker can issue different commands, for example update of the main component.
Detection
Mare.D is detected with the following F-Secure Anti-Virus updates:
[FSAV_Database_Version]
Version = 2006-02-17_02
Write-up: Gergely Erdelyi
Technical Details: Gergely Erdelyi, February 20, 2006
Description Updated: Gergely Erdelyi, February 20, 2006