Posts Tagged ‘document files’

Symantec Protection for Trojan.FakeSafe

May

2013

Today, Trend Micro published a report about a targeted attack campaign they’re calling SafeNet (the campaign’s name is unrelated to the security company of the same name). The group behind this campaign is utilizing spear phishing emails with malicious attachments. These attachments are document files that exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word. Some of the documents […]

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Travnet Botnet Steals Huge Amount of Sensitive Data

Apr

2013

In a McAfee Labs blog by my colleague Vikas Taneja last month, he discussed high-level functioning in the malware Travnet. Since then we have continued to analyze different samples and now classify Travnet as a botnet rather than a Trojan because of the presence of control code, and the malware’s ability to wait for further […]

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Fake Antivirus Renewal Email Rises from the Dead

Mar

2013

Over the last few years, many reports, white papers, and blogs have been released detailing targeted attacks. For example, some attacks employ sophisticated infection methods, such as watering hole attacks, and some rely on exploit code hidden in document files mixed with social engineering schemes. Some time ago, when the malware world was still dominated […]

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