Microsoft Patches Word Zero-Day Spreading Dridex Malware

Microsoft on Tuesday released a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that was discovered late last week and used to spread the Dridex banking Trojan. Attacks were spreading via a massive spam campaign where emails contain Microsoft Word documents with malicious attachments that exploited a...

oletools - Tools to analyze MS OLE2 files and MS Office documents, for malware analysis, forensics and debugging

oletools is a package of python tools to analyze Microsoft OLE2 files also called Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format or Compound Document File Format, such as Microsoft Office documents or Outlook messages, mainly for malware analysis, forensics and debugging. It is based on the...

Github Repository Owners Targeted by Data-Stealing Malware

Phishing emails zeroing in on developers who own Github repositories were infecting victims with malware capable of stealing data through keyloggers and modules that would snag screenshots. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks this week said that in mid-January, an unknown number of developers were...

Malware That Targets Both Microsoft, Apple Operating Systems Found

Researchers came across a malicious Word document last week that doesn’t discriminate between OS platforms. The malicious Word document is designed to spread malware on either Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, depending on where it’s opened. Like many other strains of malware these days, the sample,...

shopify-scripts: sprintf gem - format string combined attack

In the sprintf gem, NOT included in mruby-engine, there are severe vulnerabilities, including information leak, and heap buffer overflow. Here are the technical details. Technical Error 1: ============== The CHECKl macro can sometimes receive negative values, that will bypass the size checks, sin...

Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...

Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5038

The dwarfgetmacrostartendfile function in dwarfmacro5.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via a crafted string offset for .debugstr...

Microsoft Office Word Malicious Macro Execution

This module injects a malicious macro into a Microsoft Office Word document docx. The comments field in the metadata is injected with a Base64 encoded payload, which will be decoded by the macro and execute as a Windows executable. For a successful attack, the victim is required to manually enabl...

On Vulnerable iOS Apps, macOS Macros Malware, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook preview RSA 2017 and discuss the previous week’s news including the report on how a handful of iOS apps are vulnerable to interception attacks, macro malware coming to MacOS, a new Uber open source module. Show notes: Popular iOS Apps Vulnerable to TLS Interception...

Microsoft Office Word Malicious Macro Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module generates a macro-enabled Microsoft Office Word document. The comments metadata in the data is injected with a Base64 encoded payload, which will be decoded by the macro and execute as a Windows executable. For a successful attack, the victim is required to manually enable...

Apache OpenOffice Text Document Malicious Macro Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module generates an Apache OpenOffice Text Document with a malicious macro in it. To exploit successfully, the targeted user must adjust the security level in Macro Security to either Medium or Low. If set to Medium, a prompt is presented to the user to enable or disable the macro...

Apache OpenOffice Text Document Malicious Macro Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' require 'rex/zip' require 'cgi' class MetasploitModule "Apache OpenOffice Text Document Malicious Macro Execution", 'Description' = %q This module...

Watch Out! First-Ever Word Macro Malware for Apple Mac OS Discovered in the Wild

After targeting Windows-based computers over the past few years, hackers are now shifting their interest to Macs as well. The emergence of the first macro-based Word document attack against Apple's macOS platform is the latest example to prove this. The concept of Macros dates back to 1990s. You...

Apache OpenOffice Text Document Malicious Macro Execution

This module generates an Apache OpenOffice Text Document with a malicious macro in it. To exploit successfully, the targeted user must adjust the security level in Macro Security to either Medium or Low. If set to Medium, a prompt is presented to the user to enable or disable the macro. If set to...

Microsoft Office Word Malicious Macro Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' require 'rex/zip' class MetasploitModule "Microsoft Office Word Malicious Macro Execution", 'Description' = %q This module generates a macro-enabled...

CVE-2016-10043

An issue was discovered in Radisys MRF Web Panel SWMS 9.0.1. The MSMMACRONAME POST parameter in /swms/ms.cgi was discovered to be vulnerable to OS command injection attacks. It is possible to use the pipe character | to inject arbitrary OS commands and retrieve the output in the application's...

Spammers Revive Hancitor Downloader Campaigns

A recent lull in the distribution of spam spreading information-stealing malware via the Hancitor downloader has been snapped. Researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center are currently tracking an increase in spam purporting to be a forwarded parking ticket notification. The message prompts the...

MS12-021: Description of the security update for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1: March 13, 2012

MS12-021: Description of the security update for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1: March 13, 2012 Introduction Microsoft has released the security bulletin MS12-021. You can view the complete security bulletin by visiting one of the following Microsoft websites: Home users:...

New Wave of Hailstorm Spam Pelts Inboxes

Spammers are turning to an old technique known as hailstorm to slip past anti-spam and anti-malware filters. Researchers say that hailstorm spam, first spotted in 2008, has been improved and is once again being used, only this time to spread Dridex banking malware and Locky ransomware. “Hailstorm...