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Trend Micro Detects Reported Malicious Utilities with Adobe Certificates

03

Oct

2012

Code sign certificates assure users that any software is not maliciously altered. But what happens if a malicious program uses a legitimately issued certificate?Last week, Adobe released an advisory warning users of malicious utilities carrying legitimate Adobe certificates. According to the advisory, they are currently looking into certain utilities carrying legitimate Adobe-issued certificates. To immediately […]

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Searching For That Adobe Cert

02

Oct

2012

You probably know by now that Adobe will revoke a compromised code signing certificate in a couple of days. As we seem to have more code signing related security incidents recently, I started to develop a couple of new tools.AnalyzePESig is a tool to check signatures in PE files, just like Sysinternals’ sigcheck. But with […]

Category Security Written by Didier Stevens 0 Comments

Stolen code signing certificates are your worst nightmare

07

Jun

2012

Flamer used spoofed code signing certificates from Microsoft. This was done to make it appear that the malicious content was actually software delivered by Microsoft. You have likely seen the use of code signing certificates when Windows pops up a User Account Control (UAC) warning to ask for your permission to make a change to […]

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