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At F-Secure Labs, we design, build, and use numerous systems that perform automated sample analysis. Some of that automation monitors suspicious code for various keywords. And why do we monitor for keywords? Because some malware authors like to embed hidden messages in their code. For example, Virus:W32/Divvi contains this string: “Mikko cut ur ponytail” — […]

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New techniques for obfuscating malicious code on websites are a good way to mislead both users and protection software alike. Recently, I came across an interesting attack against the osCommerce online shopping platform in which malicious script was injected into PHP files by exploiting a Remote File Inclusion vulnerability in osCommerce software. This PHP script […]

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In the last few days experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected new samples of the malicious program MAX++ (aka ZeroAccess). This Trojan first achieved notoriety for using advanced rootkit technology to hide its presence in a system. Back then, MAX++ only worked on x86 platforms; now it is capable of functioning on x64 systems! Computers […]

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