Re: SID 32174 BLACKLIST DNS request for known malware domain sr.symcd.com - Osx.Backdoor.iWorm

["Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>]

That’s interesting.  

We’ll take a look here.

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Joel Esler
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> On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:23 AM, McGlamery, Russell <rmcglamery () pencor com> wrote:
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> I updated Firefox to version 33 on some of the nodes that were triggering
> the alerts and the alerts stopped.
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> Russ 
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> On 10/15/14, 8:02 AM, "McGlamery, Russell" <rmcglamery () pencor com> wrote:
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> > This looks line its something related to older versions of FireFox, I am
> > trying to verify now.
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> > Russ
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> > On 10/15/14, 7:24 AM, "Greg Kay" <gkay () netconsult co uk> wrote:
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> > > Hi,  
> > >
> > > We are getting a large amount of hits for this domain which appears to be
> > > Symantec owned.  Fairly certain this is a false positive.
> > >
> > > * 1:32174 <-> ENABLED <-> BLACKLIST DNS request for known malware domain
> > > sr.symcd.com - Osx.Backdoor.iWorm (blacklist.rules)
> > > * 1:32173 <-> ENABLED <-> BLACKLIST DNS request for known malware domain
> > > s2.symcb.com - Osx.Backdoor.iWorm (blacklist.rules)
> > >
> > > IP address is associated with geotrust, thawte and verisign as well.
> > >
> > > Have checked the references to virustotal but haven't seen anything there
> > > suggesting its bad.   Maybe I'm missing something.
> > > www.virustotal.com/en/domain/s2.symcb.com/information/
> > > www.virustotal.com/en/domain/sr.symcd.com/information/
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> > > Thanks
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> > > Greg Kay 
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