Doh, that's supposed to end "people with more experience than me
saying stuff smarter than me".

Thanks,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Ben Greenfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm doing a forensic analysis of a Zeus/Zbot infection for a client.
> I came across something kind of interesting that I didn't initially
> notice, and I'm hoping that someone can confirm or blow away a thought
> I just had.
>
> Here is some backup information:
> ~/mountpoint/WINDOWS/system32$ ls -lt --full-time sdra64.exe
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 161280 2009-02-09 07:10:48.000000000 -0500 sdra64.exe
>
> ~/mountpoint/WINDOWS/system32$ ls -ltu --full-time sdra64.exe
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 161280 2009-09-02 07:26:08.000000000 -0400 sdra64.exe
>
> For arguments sake lets assume that the timestamps are accurate and
> that the malware isn't modifying its creation timestamp (which I
> wonder about because of 2009-02-09 and 2009-09-02 having numbers
> swapped).  If I'm not mistake the -0400 and -0500 refer to offset from
> Greenwich Mean Time.  If that's the case, is it fair for me to assume
> that -0500 indicates that the computer which created the malware was
> configured with a different timezone than the one which was infected?
>
> Thanks, I look forward to people with more experience than saying
> smart stuff now :)
>
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