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edocinU edirrevO tfeL ot thgiR gnisU erawlaM (Malware Using Right to Left Override Unicode)

19
Aug
2011

According to our friends at Commtouch, malware using Right to Left Override (RLO) Unicode tricks have “resurfaced extensively in the past week”. Unicode character (U+202E) “reverses” text for languages that are traditionally read from right to left, and it’s a feature that can be used to obfuscate file names.We examined a sample a few days […]

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“exe” read backwards spells “malware”

18
Aug
2011

RIGHT TO LEFT OVERRIDE (RLO) is a unicode control character (U+202E) that reverses the character reading order from the traditional left-to-right, to right-to-left. This is mainly used for right-to-left languages (such as Arabic or Hebrew). We reported this trick last year but it has resurfaced extensively in the past week to trick users into opening […]

Category Security Written by Commtouch Cafe 0 Comments

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