Check Point Advisories

Trojan: Aurora.Hydraq (CVE-2010-0249)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2010-100
Date Published:	27 Jan 2010
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Wednesday 27 January, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2010-0249
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	The Hydraq Trojan (also known as Aurora) was being used in the recent attack against Google and other large companies. A then unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2010-0249) was used as one of the propagation vectors for this Trojan. The intent of the trojan is to open a back door on a compromised computer allowing a remote attacker to monitor activity and steal information from the compromised computer. Once installed inside a corporate network, the Trojan can also allow the attacker to use the initially compromised computer to launch into the rest of the infrastructure.

Protection Overview

This protection detects and blocks connections over port 443 that appear to be running the Aurora/Hydraq protocol.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Trojan: Aurora.Hydraq protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Malware Traffic.
Attack Information: Trojan: Aurora.Hydraq