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ISSA event on June 9th

09

Jun

2011

We spotted this malicious PDF file today. When opened, the PDF (md5: 20ecffdc2ecea0fbe113502bec0c938c) uses a known Adobe Reader exploit to drop a backdoor to the system. While dropping the backdoor, it displays this PDF on-screen to fool the user into believing everything is ok. The bait PDF talks about an Information Systems Security Association event […]

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Dead code walking

24

May

2011

Recently I had a moment to review a group of PDF exploit files. Many exploits use various tricks to obfuscate embedded JavaScript. I thought I could de-obfuscate the samples by throwing them into a sandbox environment and enjoying the beautified source code, but these samples required a different method to coax the legible code into […]

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Microsoft study asserts social engineering more common than exploitation

20

May

2011

Earlier this week Microsoft posted a blog entry showing statistics from their SmartScreen technology built into Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8 and 9. Their conclusions? One in every 14 downloads is malicious (of the malicious files that Microsoft is aware of) and this represents between two and five million malware attacks per day against IE […]

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