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Malicious PowerPoint File Contains Exploit, Drops Backdoor

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Jun

2012

We discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives via an attached file attached to specific email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific versions of Flash Player (CVE-2011-0611) to drop a backdoor onto users’ systems. Users who open the malicious .PPT file triggers the shellcode […]

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MSRT April 2012: Win32/Claretore

11

Apr

2012

We included three threat families in the April edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool – Win32/Claretore, Win32/Bocinex and Win32/Gamarue. In this post, we discuss Win32/Claretore. The earliest reported variant in this family can be traced back to November 2011. Claretore is a trojan that injects itself into running processes to intercept browser traffic […]

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MSRT March: Three Hioles in one

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Mar

2012

In a previous post, we discussed Win32/Dorkbot, one of the major threat families included in the March 2012 release of MSRT. In this post, we discuss the other inclusions, Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky.Win32/HiolesSimilar to last month’s focus on Win32/Pramro, Win32/Hioles is another trojan that resides on the computer and functions as a proxy server. The […]

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