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Targeted malware attack shows how Fast Fingerprinting works

24

Oct

2011

Last week, I was working a shift in SophosLabs triaging customer submissions, and found myself updating detection for the Troj/DocDrop-S Trojan horse. Keen readers will remember that I have talked about the Troj/DocDrop-S malware before, in relation to the presentation that Stephen Edwards and I gave at the recent Virus Bulletin conference in Barcelona. The […]

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Dissecting Flash with EASE

07

Oct

2011

EASE stands for Experimental ActionScript Emulator, and besides being a pun of debatable quality, it is the in-house tool we at FortiGuard use to analyse malicious Flash samples, unpack obfuscated code (if applicable), and automatically detect heap spraying and JIT spraying (two techniques essential to bypass DEP/ASLR when exploiting a vulnerability). Adobe Flash being nearly […]

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Following the tracks: understanding snowshoe spam

07

Oct

2011

Brett Cove from SophosLabs in Vancouver presented his talk, “Following the tracks: understanding snowshoe spam”, at the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona this morning. While there has been a lot of press about botnets being shutdown resulting in lower volumes of spam reaching our gateways, there has been very little discussion about tackling “snowshoe” […]

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