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Cidox Trojan Spoofs HTTP Host Header to Avoid Detection

04

Sep

2013

Lately, we have seen a good number of samples generating some interesting network traffic through our automated framework. The HTTP network pattern generated contains a few interesting parameters, names like “&av” (for antivirus?) and “&vm=”(VMware?), The response received looked to be encrypted, which drew my attention. Also, all the network traffic contained the same host […]

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Targeted Attacks Deliver Disassembled Malware

30

Aug

2013

Shortcut files have recently become a common vehicle used in targeted attacks to deliver malware into organizations. Symantec has observed a variety of ways shortcut files are being used to penetrate networks, such as the one described in a previous blog. We recently came across another example of how this file type is being used […]

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Expack continues exploiting Java vulnerability

27

Aug

2013

Exploit kits available in the wild tend to follow a trend by exploiting vulnerabilities reported in various browser components which are commonly deployed. Recently, we have seen an increase in exploitation of a year old vulnerability reported in the JRE component of JAVA (CVE-2012-1723). Exploitation of this vulnerability in JRE allows a attacker to download malware […]

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