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Flash malware that could fit a Twitter message

28

Jun

2011

When analysing malware you are most likely to encounter samples which use all kinds of obfuscation in order to hide from antivirus software that protects your computer. This is also true for malware written in flash (more specifically, ActionScript). Flash is very popular among malware writers these days because many people use it on daily […]

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Malware packer integrates with UPX

28

Jun

2011

Recently while I was analyzing a bunch of samples packed by custom packers, one of them struck me as a bit different than any others I saw before. At first glance, the outer layer of packing is a UPX stub, which is commonly used in malware. Especially when combined with a custom packer, UPX can […]

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Dangerous whitespaces

09

Jun

2011

A few days ago, I blogged about a PHP/JS malware targeting the osCommerce platform, which used an interesting new technique to obfuscate the malicious code. It so happens, that today I came across even more advanced sample of a PHP infector, also in the context of a vulnerable e-commerce solution. When I came to work […]

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