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JACKSBOT Has Some Dirty Tricks up Its Sleeves

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Oct

2012

Contrary to initial reports, JACKSBOT may not be as low risk as initially thought. We noted some JACKSBOT infection in the wild, indicating that the people behind this multiplatform malware are saving their best tricks for last.We analyzed the JACKSBOT backdoor family (specific detection name JAVA_JACKSBOT.A) that arrives as a Java application. Because it is […]

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MSIE 0day – continued (with a bit of Flash as well)

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Sep

2012

While we were researching the websites currently serving the new Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day threat, we found that the new attack is being piggybacked on a slightly older attack aimed on industrial companies’ websites. The hacked legitimate websites contain on their main pages a hidden iframe. The July.html page contains code for loading a […]

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Unplugging PlugX Capabilities

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Sep

2012

In our previous post, we reported about new breed of Remote Access Tool (RAT) called PlugX, which was used in targeted attacks using Poison Ivy. At first glance, this RAT appears to be a simple tool with limited remote access capabilities. However, further analysis of PlugX reveals that it might be keeping more tricks up […]

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