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edocinU edirrevO tfeL ot thgiR gnisU erawlaM (Malware Using Right to Left Override Unicode)

19

Aug

2011

According to our friends at Commtouch, malware using Right to Left Override (RLO) Unicode tricks have “resurfaced extensively in the past week”. Unicode character (U+202E) “reverses” text for languages that are traditionally read from right to left, and it’s a feature that can be used to obfuscate file names.We examined a sample a few days […]

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Can we believe our eyes?

11

Aug

2011

Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way. A common method used to hijack a website and redirect it to a site of […]

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An unlikely couple: 64-bit rootkit and rogue AV for MacOS

16

May

2011

The Virus Lab recently came across a very interesting sample – a downloader containing two drivers and which downloads fake antivirus programs developed for both PC and Mac platforms. The malicious program is downloaded and installed using the BlackHole Exploit Kit. The latter contains exploits targeting vulnerabilities in JRE (CVE-2010-0886, CVE-2010-4452, CVE-2010-3552) and PDF. Both […]

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