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Wednesday 24 February 2016

Evil network: 184.154.28.72/29 (Marko Cipovic / Singlehop) and liveadexchanger.com

liveadexchanger.com is an advertising network with a questionable reputation currently hosted on a Google IP of 146.148.46.20. The WHOIS details are anonymous, never a good sign for an ad network.

Seemingly running ads on the scummiest websites, liveadexchanger.com does things like trying to install fake Flash updates on visitors computers, as can be seen from this URLquery report... you might find the screenshot missing because of the complex URL, so here it is..


That landing page is on alwaysnewsoft.traffic-portal.net (part of an extraordinarily nasty network at 184.154.28.72/29) which then forwards unsuspecting visitors to a fake download at intva31.peripheraltest.info  which you will not be surprised to learn is hosted at the adware-pusher's faviourite host of Amazon AWS.

Of the 567 sites that have been hosted in this /29 (not all are there now), 378 of them are tagged as malicious in some way by Google (67%) and 157 (28%) are also tagged by SURBL as being malicious in some way. Overall then, 74% are marked as malicious by either Google or SURBL, which typically means that they just haven't caught up yet with the other bad domains. The raw data can be seen here [pastebin].

At the time of writing, the following websites appear to be live:

check4free.newperferctupgrade.net
testpc24.onlinelivevideo.org
getsoftnow.onlinelivevideo.org
newsoftready.onlinelivevideo.org
whenupdate.plugin2update.net
alwaysnew.updateforeveryone.net
free2update.newsafeupdatesfree.net
liveupdate.update4free.org
downgradepc.update4free.org
noteupgrade.update4free.org
newupdate.digit-services.org
lastversion.whensoftisclean.org
newupdate.set4newsearchupdate.com
upd24.free247updatetoolnow.com
24check.plugin-search2update.com
check4upgrade.plugin-search2update.com
softwareupdate.plugin-search2update.com
updateauto.theinlinelive.net
newsoftready.set2updatesnen.net
alwaysnewsoft.traffic-portal.net
checksoft.new24checkupgrade.net
legalsoft.perfectsafeupdate.net
checksoft.group4updating.org
checksoft.thesoft4updates.org
netapp.safeplugin-update.org
freedlupd.pcfreeupdates.club
softwareupdate.upgrades4free.org
freechecknow.onlinelivevideo.org
liveupdate.os-update.club
newupdate.update4free.net
checksoft.newsafeupdatesfree.net
workingupdate.digit-services.org
now.how2update4u.com
autoupdate.whenupgradeswork.com
setupgrade.set4freeupdates.xyz
update4soft.searchonly.online
updateauto.forfreeupgrades.org
autoupdate.soft-land.club
soft4update.soft-land.club
updateauto.newvideolive.club
newupdate.portal-update.club
maintainpc.perfectupdater.org
newupdate.downloadsoft24.club

The WHOIS details for this block:
%rwhois V-1.5:003eff:00 rwhois.singlehop.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5)
network:Class-Name:network
network:ID:ORG-SINGL-8.184-154-28-72/29
network:Auth-Area:184.154.0.0/16
network:IP-Network:184.154.28.72/29
network:Organization:Marko Cipovic
network:Street-Address:Kralja Nikole 33
network:City:Podgorica
network:Postal-Code:81000
network:Country-Code:CS
network:Tech-Contact;I:NETWO1546-ARIN
network:Admin-Contact;I:NETWO1546-ARIN
network:Abuse-Contact;I:ABUSE2492-ARIN
network:Created:20150323
network:Updated:20150323


If you are using domain-based blocklists, this [pastebin] is the list of domains currently or formerly hosted on this block with the subdomains removed. Other than that, I would recommend the following blocklist:

liveadexchanger.com
184.154.28.72/29

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