Posts Tagged ‘decoy’

South Korean Wipers and Spear Phishing E-mails

Mar

2013

News broke last week of a “wiper” malware that affected South Korean banks and broadcasting companies. NSHC Red Alert Team has published a detailed analysis of the malware here. There were several hashes mentioned for the same component, which suggest multiple operations under the same campaign. So how did the affected companies get infected? No […]

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Miniduke: web based infection vector

Mar

2013

Together with our partner CrySyS Lab, we’ve discovered two new, previously-unknown infection mechanisms for Miniduke. These new infection vectors rely on Java and IE vulnerabilities to infect the victim’s PC. While inspecting one of the C&C servers of Miniduke, we have found files that were not related to the C&C code, but seemed to be […]

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Christmas-Themed Malware Starts to Jingle All the Way

Dec

2012

Once again cybercriminals take advantage of the Holidays in what seem like a targeted attack against businesses and government organizations. We spotted samples that bore the filename, PROPOSED CHRISTMAS PARTY 2012.doc. Trend Micro detects this as TROJ_ARTIEF.RTN. When executed, this malware drops a file (temp.doc) that acts as decoy to trick recipients into thinking this […]

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