What are Deep Neural Networks Learning About Malware?

An increasing number of modern antivirus solutions rely on machine learning ML techniques to protect users from malware. While ML-based approaches, like FireEye Endpoint Security’s MalwareGuard capability, have done a great job at detecting new threats, they also come with substantial development...

FLARE Script Series: Automating Objective-C Code Analysis with Emulation

This blog post is the next episode in the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team Script Series. Today, we are sharing a new IDAPython library – flare-emu – powered by IDA Pro and the Unicorn emulation framework that provides scriptable emulation features for the x86, x8664, ARM, and...

FLARE Script Series: Automating Objective-C Code Analysis with Emulation

This blog post is the next episode in the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team Script Series. Today, we are sharing a new IDAPython library – flare-emu – powered by IDA Pro and the Unicorn emulation framework that provides scriptable emulation features for the x86, x8664, ARM, and...

Old-School Bagle Worm Still Ready for Modern Spam Campaigns

The long-running Bagle worm, affecting Microsoft Windows machines, is still out there, a throwback to an earlier time. Also referred to as Beagle, Bagle contains a backdoor that listens on TCP port 6777 which is hardcoded in the worm’s body. This backdoor component provides remote access to the...

Volkswagen Giveaway Scam Peddles Ad Networks

A fake Volkswagen campaign is making its way across social media platforms, luring in victims with promises of a free Volkswagen car giveaway – but instead redirecting them to third-party ad servers. Victims are first sent messages via WhatsApp or Facebook, purporting to be from Volkswagen and...

Radare2 - Unix-Like Reverse Engineering Framework And Commandline Tools Security

r2 is a rewrite from scratch of radare in order to provide a set of libraries and tools to work with binary files. Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable command-line hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later added support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code,...

Grab: Production secret key leak in config/secrets.yml

Summary: Production secret key leak in config/secrets.yml Description: In Github, http://engineering.grab.com/ secretkeybase is leaked which is present in the config/secrets.yml Steps To Reproduce: 1. Go to the below GitHub URL and we can verify that secretkeybase is present...

GE Proficy GDS

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.2 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: General Electric GE Equipment: Proficy GDS Vulnerability: XXE 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to initiate an OPC UA session and retrieve an...

Adobe Flash Zero-Day Leveraged Via Office Docs in Campaign

An Adobe Flash Player zero-day exploit has been spotted in the wild as part of a widespread campaign, researchers said on Wednesday. Adobe has just issued a patch for the previously unknown critical flaw. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-15982, is a use-after-free flaw enabling arbitrary code executio...

RHEL 6 : openshift-origin-broker-util (RHSA-2014:0460)

An updated openshift-origin-broker-util package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Omron CX-One

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.6 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Omron Equipment: CX-One Vulnerabilities: Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Use After Free 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute code under the privileges of...

SpiderControl SCADA WebServer

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: SpiderControl Equipment: SCADA WebServer Vulnerability: Reflected Cross-site Scripting 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute JavaScript...

RHEL 6 : openshift-origin-broker-util (RHSA-2014:0461)

An updated openshift-origin-broker-util package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.2.7. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Using the L.U.R.E. Method to Swim Free of Phishing Attacks

baitfish noun bait·​fish | \ˈbāt-ˌfish \ Definition of baitfish : a small fish such as a golden shiner or menhaden that attracts and is a food source for a larger game fish also : a fish used for bait Think about being in a school of fish for a second. Schools behave the way they do for a reason...

Triton - Dynamic Binary Analysis (DBA) Framework

Triton is a dynamic binary analysis DBA framework. It provides internal components like a Dynamic Symbolic Execution DSE engine, a Taint engine, AST representations of the x86 and the x86-64 instructions set semantics, SMT simplification passes, an SMT Solver Interface and, the last but not least...

INVT Electric VT-Designer

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: INVT Electric Equipment: VT-Designer Vulnerabilities: Deserialization of Untrusted Data, Heap-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause...

Protecting Against Identity Theft

As the holidays draw near, many consumers turn to the internet to shop for goods and services. Although online shopping can offer convenience and save time, shoppers should be cautious online and protect personal information against identity theft. Identity thieves steal personal information, suc...

Security Bulletin: Code execution vulnerability with OpenID connect in WebSphere Application Server Liberty affects IBM WebSphere Application Server in IBM Cloud (CVE-2018-1851)

Summary There is a potential code execution vulnerability in OpenID connect in WebSphere Application Server Liberty. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1851 DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server OpenID Connect could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, cause...

Distributing Malware By Becoming an Admin on an Open-Source Project

The module "event-stream" was infected with malware by an anonymous someone who became an admin on the project. Cory Doctorow points out that this is a clever new attack vector: Many open source projects attain a level of "maturity" where no one really needs any new features and there aren't a lo...

Miasm - Reverse Engineering Framework In Python

Miasm is a free and open source GPLv2 reverse engineering framework. Miasm aims to analyze / modify / generate binary programs. Here is a non exhaustive list of features: Opening / modifying / generating PE / ELF 32 / 64 LE / BE using Elfesteem Assembling / Disassembling X86 / ARM / MIPS / SH4 /...