Date Discovered: 9/20/2003
Date Added: 2/27/2004
Origin: Unknown
Length: Varies
Type: Trojan
SubType: Script
This is generic detection of HTML files containing scripts that use the Windows Scripting Host ActiveX implementations which use harmful technique and/or code. AVERT received several samples which could be categorized as malicious or harmful, and were abusing a discovered exploit of running ActiveX objects which were "signed as safe".
Some of the samples received, execute cmd.exe to achieve different payloads. Some payloads include:
Accessing sites to download and execute malicious files
Display messages
Format drives
Delete files
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=101057

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