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Mobile Drive-By Malware example

11

Mar

2013

Several days ago we received a complaint about javascrpt.ru. After a bit of research, we found that it tries to mimic ajax.google.com and jquery, but the code is an obfuscated/packed redirector.After removing two layers of obfuscation, we found a list of conditions checking visitors’ user Agent. From these conditions. we got a clue and focused […]

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BlackHole Kit Doesn’t Like Chrome

06

Dec

2012

Recently, we’ve started to see the BlackHole Exploit Kit (BHEK) using plain HTML files (instead of iframes) as redirectors to the exploit page.The content of the HTML file will usually be a page displaying a “loading” or “please wait” or “connecting to server” type of message, with background JavaScript which will redirect the victim to […]

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Widespread malware abuses unsecured Geolocation Service of Adult Website

04

May

2012

While researching outbound malware communications to improve detections for our products, we recently made an interesting discovery. Thousands of samples running in our malware lab reached out to the URL promos.fling.com/geo/txt/city.php. At first we suspected this to be a command and control (C&C) server of botnet malware. However, Websense® categorization of the main Web page of the […]

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