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Exploit Toolkit Website 33 Attack

rivendale_exotics said:
I have been getting redirected to Adult Friend Finder all week on my iphone and am so frustrated that I stopped trying to look at Fauna when I am out of the house because of it. Now when I try to get into Fauna from my Mac laptop, it is trying to redirect me to porn sites. Does anyone know if the malware can affect Apple products as well as PCs? I am going to have to stop using Fauna if this is not fixed.
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Try clearing your cookies and cache. It's unusual that you would be getting the redirects so often, as everyone else who has had them pretty much only has one per session.

As for the danger to your computer, speaking only about the redirect problem, I see no danger at all.
Some of the AV programs report the blocking of a malicious URL, but it's malicious in that it's taking you somewhere you didn't ask to go, not that it's malicious to your system.
The same process could be used to redirect you to a page that automatically downloads a virus, but that is not the case here. It seems that the redirect is being used to generate pay per click revenue, since it's redirecting you to actual legitimate sites.

Check your history logs. When you get redirected to AFF you'll see that page in your history, immediately before that you will most likely see some unusual URL, quite long and primarily random characters. This was the URL that you got bumped to which then redirected you to AFF or whatever the final destination was. It's the click through URL.

This is mainly an annoyance until fixed, but not a threat really.
 
I've only experienced the redirect on 2 separate visits to this site - once on my phone, and once on my desktop - and I check in fairly often. I took no action whatsoever, so I thought whatever Rich did worked. Luckily, I don't use work machines to check this site, though - AFF or porn would be a problem.
Given the randomness, I wonder if it is related to Google's cycling of their ads.

I don't mind Google ads so much when they're related to my online searches, but those seem to make up a fairly small share of them. I tend not to even focus on ads, unless they create issues; so I haven't felt compelled to block them (I did it with my last computer, because of a particularly annoying set of Google ads that automatically scrolled the page so the ad was in view). I don't appreciate popups or redirects - if that were to continue, I would feel compelled to address the problem again.
 
Our MIS Manager suggested you have your guys look into DNS Highjacking. The behavior appears to be someone grabbing your incoming traffic before the page loads and redirecting to these other websites.

I've had this happen to me on Fauna on both of my secure machines (Win8 & OSX) several times over the last few days. You're not the only one who is experiencing this either, I've noted it on another website late last week.
 
Clay Davenport said:
Try clearing your cookies and cache. It's unusual that you would be getting the redirects so often, as everyone else who has had them pretty much only has one per session.

As for the danger to your computer, speaking only about the redirect problem, I see no danger at all.
Some of the AV programs report the blocking of a malicious URL, but it's malicious in that it's taking you somewhere you didn't ask to go, not that it's malicious to your system.
The same process could be used to redirect you to a page that automatically downloads a virus, but that is not the case here. It seems that the redirect is being used to generate pay per click revenue, since it's redirecting you to actual legitimate sites.

Check your history logs. When you get redirected to AFF you'll see that page in your history, immediately before that you will most likely see some unusual URL, quite long and primarily random characters. This was the URL that you got bumped to which then redirected you to AFF or whatever the final destination was. It's the click through URL.

This is mainly an annoyance until fixed, but not a threat really.
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Thank you, Clay, for that explanation. It was very helpful and makes me feel better about continuing to use Fauna. I don't install extra anti-virus software on my Mac because it makes the system run buggy so I could not see exactly what the re-direct was or whether it was trying to load a virus.
 
rivendale_exotics said:
Thank you, Clay, for that explanation. It was very helpful and makes me feel better about continuing to use Fauna. I don't install extra anti-virus software on my Mac because it makes the system run buggy so I could not see exactly what the re-direct was or whether it was trying to load a virus.
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See if you browser, im guessing Safari has a addon for adblock like Firefox and Chrome has. By having this it stops ads from loading on forums and other sites 100%. This has stopped being redirected, but antivirus still detects and stops it.
 
I cleared my cache and cookies and I'll still get the redirect-attack notice form Norton every time I clicked on this thread to read it. I agree with the earlier thread about DNS hijacking.
 
If the sites that we are being redirected to, like AFF, are paying somebody per click, would it potentially help to contact their administrators about the issue? They probably don't want to be paying somebody per click when none of us are actual customers with any interest in their site. Perhaps they have the capability of suspending the fraudulent account.
 
TripleMoonsExotic said:
Our MIS Manager suggested you have your guys look into DNS Highjacking. The behavior appears to be someone grabbing your incoming traffic before the page loads and redirecting to these other websites.

I've had this happen to me on Fauna on both of my secure machines (Win8 & OSX) several times over the last few days. You're not the only one who is experiencing this either, I've noted it on another website late last week.
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It's happened to me a few times in the last couple of days. Right now if I try to get on Fauna on the Home Page, the screen is all white. I have to enter Fauna through the forums page.
 
I just got redirected to AFF for the first time. It happens if I use the link that comes up on my browser page. It doesn't happen if I go via my own bookmarked link (which goes straight to a forum).

Not sure that's of any use to anyone, but I thought I'd weigh in with the little information I have....
 
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rivendale_exotics said:
If the sites that we are being redirected to, like AFF, are paying somebody per click, would it potentially help to contact their administrators about the issue? They probably don't want to be paying somebody per click when none of us are actual customers with any interest in their site. Perhaps they have the capability of suspending the fraudulent account.
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Need to check for a referral ID next time it happens aswell. They should be able to check incoming site, but PPID would help. If it happens again ill see if i can catch the url, always seem to be multitasking when it pops up and then trying to hide it before someone seems something inappropriate:NoNo:
 
I check this site all the time but I just recently received an PM message and I clicked the link from my E-mail. The AFF page came up. Now I cannot type in the name of the site in the URL, I have to use a bookmark to access the website. If I type it I get a blank page or "the page cannot be found" message.

I hope this can be resolved soon, good luck!
 
Got a redirect first thing this morning when I hit the link to the BOI:


0mox98uc81q9k2es9y9c6i951454e16677a5443a4084573c2c448879.3dgames.newarticles.biz/index2.php

I removed the http:// so it wouldn't actually produce a link here.
 
Ive gotten the redirects to various adult sites over the last few days on my laptop, my iphone and my work computer.
 
I got a Web Attack : Blackhole Toolkit 36 notice today instead of the Toolkit 33 notice. Got redirected to a blank page this time. Had to refresh page to get fauna homepage to load.
 
Today my Motorola Droid Razr was redirected to Adult Friend Finder. I go on a lot of forums, and this is the only site I'm having these issues on.
 
The server techs claim they found the problem. If anyone gets the redirect, please let me know here.
 
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