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Android malware employs steganography

30

Jan

2012

Amidst my usual adventure with Android malware analysis, I saw this snippet of code while skimming through a particular sample’s class modules. Figure 1 Late last year, I was looking deeper into Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, especially about the fields that hold textual information. Upon seeing the code, it immediately triggered my suspicion […]

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Are You Ready For Some Football?

25

Jan

2012

Contributor: Masaki Suenaga We certainly are! It is American football season and the Super Bowl is right around the corner. Apparently, so are the malware authors. It would not be the first time they took advantage of this sporting event. Back in 2007, the Dolphins (hosts for Super Bowl XLI) had their website compromised by […]

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Identifying IOS

06

Jan

2012

Did you ever had to identify a Cisco IOS image when you couldn’t rely on the filename?Look for strings starting with CW_ between strings CW_BEGIN and CW_END in the image file, for example like this:You will find strings like CW_IMAGE, CW_FAMILY, CW_FEATURE, CW_VERSION, CW_MEDIA, CW_SYSDESCR and CW_MAGIC between strings CW_BEGIN and CW_END.In this example, the […]

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