Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for Nov. 9

Midterm elections aside, it has been a busy week in the infosec world. On Monday, the Pentagon suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal. On Wednesday, Cisco in an advisory revealed that it had “inadvertently” shipped an in-house...

Pentagon Draws Back the Veil on APT Malware with Sudden Embrace of VirusTotal

The Pentagon has suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal, which is essentially a malware zoo that’s used by security pros and antivirus/malware detection engines to gain a better understanding of the threat landscape. The Cyber...

Munin - Online Hash Checker For Virustotal And Other Services

Munin is a online hash checker utility that retrieves valuable information from various online sources The current version of Munin queries the following services: Virustotal Malshare HybridAnalysis Note: Munin is based on the script "VT-Checker", which has been maintained in the LOKI repository...

Old dog, new tricks - Analysing new RTF-based campaign distributing Agent Tesla, Loki with PyREbox

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink with contributions from Emmanuel Tacheau. Executive Summary Cisco Talos has discovered a new malware campaign that drops the sophisticated information-stealing trojan called "Agent Tesla," and other malware such as the Loki...

Hacker gets 14 years jail time for operating Scan4You malware scanning service

By Waqas Scan4You was a VirusTotal like platform used for malicious purposes. A 37-year old male from Riga, Latvia has received 14 years sentence for creating and running Scan4You, a counter antivirus service that aided malware developers to check detection rates of their malicious software. The...

Operator of VirusTotal Like Malware-Scanning Service Jailed for 14 Years

A Latvian hacker behind the development and operation of counter antivirus service "Scan4You" has finally been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 37-year-old Ruslans Bondars, described as a Latvian "non-citizen" or "citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia," was found guilty...

Operator of VirusTotal Like Malware-Scanning Service Jailed for 14 Years

A Latvian hacker behind the development and operation of counter antivirus service "Scan4You" has finally been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 37-year-old Ruslans Bondars, described as a Latvian "non-citizen" or "citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia," was found guilty...

Chaturbate: Leaking Username and Password in the URLs via Virustotal, can leads to account takeover

Hi Dear @chaturbate team Vulnerability Type Critical Information Leakage in URLs via Virustotal. Vulnerability Severity High. Description During my regular testing, went to https://www.virustotal.com/%2Fdomain%2Fchaturbate.com After reviewing all URLs more and more, I got 2 Interesting and Critic...

CertCrunchy - Just A Silly Recon Tool That Uses Data From SSL Certificates To Find Potential Host Names

It just a silly python script that either retrieves SSL Certificate based data from online sources, currently https://crt.sh/, https://certdb.com/, https://sslmate.com/certspotter/ and https://censys.io or given a IP range it will attempt to extract host information from SSL Certificates. If you...

HackerOne: HackerOne customer submitted sensitive link to VirusTotal, exposing confidential information

Hi There, Steps To Reproduce 1- open this site: https://www.virustotal.com//domain/hackerone.com ------------------------- 2- Then Go down to the end of this page and you will see this: ████ https://hackerone.com/reports/334677?invitationtoken=███████ -------------- 3- when i open it, i see this:...

Two Zero-Day Exploits Found After Someone Uploaded 'Unarmed' PoC to VirusTotal

Security researchers at Microsoft have unveiled details of two critical and important zero-day vulnerabilities that had recently been discovered after someone uploaded a malicious PDF file to VirusTotal, and get patched before being used in the wild. In late March, researchers at ESET found a...

CVE-2018-10408

An issue was discovered in VirusTotal. A maliciously crafted Universal/fat binary can evade third-party code signing checks. By not completing full inspection of the Universal/fat binary, the user of the third-party tool will believe that the code is signed by Apple, but the malicious unsigned co...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in VirusTotal. A maliciously crafted Universal/fat binary can evade third-party code signing checks. By not completing full inspection of the Universal/fat binary, the user of the third-party tool will believe that the code is signed by Apple, but the malicious unsigned co...

CVE-2018-10408

CVE-2018-10408 concerns VirusTotal and other macOS third‑party tools where a maliciously crafted Universal/Fat binary can bypass code-signing checks and cause unsigned malware to execute. The root cause is an inconsistency in how Mach‑O files are verified within Fat/Universal binaries: if the Fat...

Mobile Menace Monday: re-emergence of a fake Android AV

Back in early 2013, a new mobile antivirus AV company called Armor for Android emerged into the mobile security software industry that had everyone perplexed. It seemed eerily like malware known as a Fake AV, and some even gave it that label. As a younger mobile researcher, I was one of those who...

GravityRAT - The Two-Year Evolution Of An APT Targeting India

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Update: 4/30 Since the publication of the blog post, one of the anti-VM capability was commented a lot on Twitter: the detection of Virtual Machines by checking the temperature of the system. We decided to add more details and...

MalPipe - Malware/IOC Ingestion And Processing Engine

MalPipe is a modular malware and indicator collection and processing framework. It is designed to pull malware, domains, URLs and IP addresses from multiple feeds, enrich the collected data and export the results. At this time, the following feeds are supported: VirusTotal...

VirusTotal launches 'Droidy' sandbox to detect malicious Android apps

One of the biggest and most popular multi-antivirus scanning engine service has today launched a new Android sandbox service, dubbed VirusTotal Droidy, to help security researchers detect malicious apps based on behavioral analysis. VirusTotal, owned by Google, is a free online service that allow...

OlympicDestroyer is here to trick the industry

A couple of days after the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, we received information from several partners, on the condition of non-disclosure TLP:Red, about a devastating malware attack on the Olympic infrastructure. A quick peek inside the malware revealed a...

Gojdue Variant Eludes Microsoft, Google Cloud Protection, Researchers Say

Researchers have identified a new ransomware strain that went undetected by built-in anti-malware protection used by cloud heavyweights Microsoft and Google as recently as January. According to researchers at the cloud service firm Bitglass, both Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365’s SharePoint...