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Busting a Big Malvertising / Fake-AV Attack

26
Jul
2011

Last week, I noticed an odd-looking URL in the WebPulse logs, so I plugged it into my test browser. I was rather surprised to see a fake AV attack “scanner” page pop up. Not because these kinds of attacks are rare (they aren’t; they’re one of the most common attack forms), but rather because it’s […]

Category Security Written by Blue Coat 0 Comments

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Dead code walking

24
May
2011

Recently I had a moment to review a group of PDF exploit files. Many exploits use various tricks to obfuscate embedded JavaScript. I thought I could de-obfuscate the samples by throwing them into a sandbox environment and enjoying the beautified source code, but these samples required a different method to coax the legible code into […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

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