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Piecing the malware puzzle – Exploring a spike in exploit activity

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Mar

2012

In this post, we explore a telemetry spike in Java/OpenConnection and CVE-2011-3544 exploit activity. While reviewing user feedback from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center recently, we noticed an unprecedented amount of feedback on one particular Java/OpenConnection variant — TrojanDownloader:Java/OpenConnection.PK. Such interest in this type of Java applet-based exploit is quite unusual, and prompted us to investigate […]

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Analysis of a Blackhole Exploit page

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Feb

2012

The Blackhole Exploit kit is still a very popular attack on the web. They are many variants of the threat. Here is a detailed analysis of one Exploit kit page and the obfuscation technique leveraged by the attack. In this example, the exploit is heavily obfuscated. The exploit has been encoded and stored as HTML […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

3-2-1 WordPress vulnerability leads to possible new exploit kit

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Jan

2012

This past weekend one compromised Web site in particular caught my attention. Based on my analysis, the site was compromised because it was running an old version of WordPress (3.2.1) that is vulnerable to publicly available exploits [1] [2]. The Web site injection is only somewhat interesting. What is more interesting is the redirection chain and resulting […]

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