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The MiniDuke Mystery: PDF 0-day Government Spy Assembler 0x29A Micro Backdoor

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Feb

2013

On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Aligheri’s “Divine Comedy”. Since […]

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The Lowest Hanging Fruit: Java

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Feb

2013

By all measures, Java is the current title holder for the lowest hanging fruit in computer security. (And by Java, we mean JRE and its various browser plugins.) It wasn’t always so. How did it happen? Let’s review some highlights in the history of low hanging fruit. From 2004 to 2008: Attacks shifted from Windows […]

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Digging Into the Sandbox-Escape Technique of the Recent PDF Exploit

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Feb

2013

As promised in our previous blog entry for the recent Adobe Reader PDF zero-day attack, we now offer more technical details on this Reader “sandbox-escape” plan. In order to help readers understand what’s going on there, we first need to provide some background.Adobe Reader’s Sandbox ArchitectureThe Adobe Reader sandbox consists of two processes: a high-privilege […]

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