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Obfuscating, bifurcating, escalating and mitigating on 64-bit

Jul

2012

With the growth in adoption of 64-bit architectures and associated operating systems, we’re seeing the usual malicious suspects following the trend. We have seen variants of several families, including Alureon, Koobface, Sirefef and Ursnif targeting this platform. These families adopt various techniques to prevent their detection and removal, one of which is obfuscation. Let’s take […]

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Rising trend of using professional obfuscations for protecting Java samples

Jul

2012

Usage of commercial grade software protectors/cryptors/obfuscators is a very common trend in desktop malware landscape. They are mainly used to make the analyst’s life tough by adding extra layers of protection. Similarly, there have been quite a few open source obfuscators and professional obfuscators used in the malware families implemented in Java as well for […]

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Blackhole Exploit Hones in on Amazon Users

Dec

2011

Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits. A Black Hole exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows operating systems. It also targets other software, such as Java and Adobe Reader, that can be installed on Windows platforms, which are a lot. Since the kits are already available in […]

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