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Targeted Attacks Make WinHelp Files Not So Helpful

Oct

2012

Last year Symantec reported on the use of the Windows Help File (.hlp) extension as an attack vector in targeted attacks. Symantec telemetry is now increasingly seeing this attack vector being used in targeted attacks against industry and government sectors. The nefarious WinHelp files being used in these targeted attacks are detected by Symantec as […]

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CVE-2012-1875 in the Wild (Part 2) – Internet Explorer Gets Stumped

Jun

2012

The Microsoft patch Tuesday has been very interesting this month. Symantec has observed the exploitation of a couple of client-side vulnerabilities in the wild. This blog will concentrate on one of them, the Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2012-1875 Same ID Property Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1875), which was actively exploited, even before MS Tuesday. We […]

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Adobe Reader CVE-2011-2462 Exploit analysis

Apr

2012

The exploit Used environment: Windows XP SP3 with Adobe Acrobat 9.4.6 This U3D memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could cause an application crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. After the malicious PDF file is opened, new process pretty.exe (this file is changed all the times.) is created. We can […]

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