But, you sparked a memory, and I marked down another possibility as negative.

Alternate Data Streams.

I used the Sysinternals streams utility - that came up negative
against the directory and the files.

Kurt

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did you get hashes of the files and run them through your favorite Google
> search engine?
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I logged into our file server to do some work on it, and noticed a new
>> directory - C:\780A76EB-C496-4C3D-B653-F2AF085FA643\
>>
>> It contained the following files zero-length, marked as Read-only,
>> Hidden, System:
>>      0湶甭敳獲琮穧
>>      1㍄ᄢ
>>      2㍄ᄢ
>>      3虯戱❮耀
>>
>> The dates on the files and directory is 2016-01-04 18:28. Perms on the
>> files/directory are innocuous. One thing that's very weird is that the
>> filenames are in two different character sets - they show as Chinese
>> and Korean in Google Translate's autodetection.
>>
>> I did a lot of searching, and finally found reference to the
>> directory/files in the PFRO.log:
>> 1/10/2016 17:59:27 - PFRO Error:
>>
>> \??\Volume{3ec25e25-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\780A76EB-C496-4C3D-B653-F2AF085FA643\0湶甭敳獲琮穧,
>> !\??\湶甭敳獲琮穧, 0xc0000034
>> 1/10/2016 17:59:27 - PFRO Error:
>>
>> \??\Volume{3ec25e25-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\780A76EB-C496-4C3D-B653-F2AF085FA643\1㍄ᄢ,
>> !\??\㍄ᄢ, 0xc0000034
>> 1/10/2016 17:59:27 - PFRO Error:
>>
>> \??\Volume{3ec25e25-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\780A76EB-C496-4C3D-B653-F2AF085FA643\2㍄ᄢ,
>> !\??\㍄ᄢ, 0xc0000034
>> 1/10/2016 17:59:27 - PFRO Error:
>>
>> \??\Volume{3ec25e25-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\780A76EB-C496-4C3D-B653-F2AF085FA643\3虯戱❮耀,
>> !\??\虯戱❮耀, 0xc0000034
>> 1/10/2016 17:59:27 - PFRO Error:
>>
>> \??\Volume{3ec25e25-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\780A76EB-C496-4C3D-B653-F2AF085FA643,
>> |delete operation|, 0xc0000101
>> 1/10/2016 17:59:27 - 0 Successful PFRO operations
>>
>>
>> The GUID that begins '3ec25' refers to the C: drive. I have no idea
>> what is referenced by the GUID that begins '780A' - it doesn't show in
>> the registry, and I can't find reference to it anywhere else on the
>> machine.
>>
>> I checked the eventlogs, and see that the machine rebooted at the time
>> noted in PFRO.log. However, the PFRO log shows that whatever it was
>> failed to install.
>>
>> The reboot was initiated by one of our team members as we were
>> completing moving some VMs around and reconfiguring VMDKs, etc.
>>
>> There were no patches pending, and no software installs recently.
>>
>> I've run a scan with ESET against the C: drive, and haven't found
>> anything untoward, and used ProcessExplorer's VirusTotal capability to
>> check memory, and it came back clean also.
>>
>> I'm really baffled - if anyone has thoughts on this, I'd surely like
>> to hear them.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>


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