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Targeted malware attack shows how Fast Fingerprinting works

24

Oct

2011

Last week, I was working a shift in SophosLabs triaging customer submissions, and found myself updating detection for the Troj/DocDrop-S Trojan horse. Keen readers will remember that I have talked about the Troj/DocDrop-S malware before, in relation to the presentation that Stephen Edwards and I gave at the recent Virus Bulletin conference in Barcelona. The […]

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How fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files can lead to efficient malware detection

13

Oct

2011

At last week’s Virus Bulletin 2011 conference Paul Baccas and Stephen Edwards from SophosLabs presented their research paper “Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: Heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance”. They may win the prize for the longest title, but what does it mean? OLE2 is a container format synonymous with […]

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Troj/DocDrop-S: A preview of a Virus Bulletin conference paper

07

Jul

2011

Later this year, I will be presenting a paper in Barcelona with my colleague Stephen Edwards at the Virus Bulletin conference. It’s a great meeting-of-minds, where businesses and anti-virus experts get together to discuss the latest threats and technologies to counter them. The talk Stephen and I will be presenting is called “Fast fingerprinting of […]

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