RATs and stealers rush through “Heaven’s Gate” with new loader

By Holger Unterbrink and Edmund Brumaghin. Executive summary Malware is constantly finding new ways to avoid detection. This doesn't mean that some will never be detected, but it does allow adversaries to increase the period of time between initial release and detection. Flying under the radar fo...

Mac Malware Pushed via Google Search Results, Masquerades as Flash Installer

Never-before-seen Mac malware, dubbed OSX/CrescentCore, has been discovered in the wild. The trojan, spotted on various websites masquerading as an Adobe Flash Player installer, drops malicious applications and browser extensions on victims’ systems when downloaded. OSX/CrescentCore is spread via...

CVE-2019-13125

HaboMalHunter through 2.0.0.3 in Tencent Habo allows attackers to evade dynamic malware analysis via PIE compilation...

CVE-2019-13125

HaboMalHunter through 2.0.0.3 in Tencent Habo allows attackers to evade dynamic malware analysis via PIE compilation...

New Dridex Variant Slips By Anti-Virus Detection

Researchers have spotted a variant of the Dridex banking trojan with new obfuscation capabilities that help it skirt anti-virus detection. While Dridex has been around since 2011, researchers told Threatpost Friday that they recently spotted phishing emails distributing a never-before-seen varian...

Unprotect Project: Classify Malwares Based on Known Evasion Techniques

PenTestIT RSS Feed One of the first steps in learning about a malware is to see if it is evasive in any sense and then proceed accordingly. The Unprotect Project helps you do this easily. It is an open source project in Python that proposes a malware classification techniques based on their evasi...

In NTDLL I Trust – Process Reimaging and Endpoint Security Solution Bypass

ARCHIVED STORY In NTDLL I Trust – Process Reimaging and Endpoint Security Solution Bypass By Eoin Carroll · June 20, 2019 Process Reimaging Overview The Windows Operating System has inconsistencies in how it determines process image FILEOBJECT locations, which impacts non-EDR Endpoint Detection a...

5,000 Twitter Accounts Linked to Disinformation Campaigns

Twitter has removed six sets of accounts that the site has deemed to be devoted to coordinated, state-backed propaganda activities – totaling about 5,000 accounts in all. “We believe that people and organizations with the advantages of institutional power and which consciously abuse our service a...

New Linux Malware ‘HiddenWasp’ Borrows from Mirai, Azazel

A new strain of malware targeting Linux systems has been identified by researchers. The malware, dubbed HiddenWasp, is believed to be used as part of a second-stage attack against already-compromised systems and is composed of a rootkit, trojan and deployment script. “The ratio of Linux threats h...

Crosslinked - LinkedIn Enumeration Tool To Extract Valid Employee Names From An Organization Through Search Engine Scraping

CrossLinked simplifies the processes of searching LinkedIn to collect valid employee names when performing password spraying or another security testing against an organization. Using similar search engine scraping capabilities found in tools like subscraper and pymeta, CrossLinked will find vali...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: JCry Ransomware Pretends to be Adobe Flash Player Update Installer

JCry is a new family of ransomware that has the unique characteristic of being written in the Go programming language and being delivered as multiple executables, each with their own purpose. It was pretending to be an Adobe flash player update installer on a compromised website to lure users to...

A week in security (May 6 – 12)

Last week on Labs, we discussed what to do when you discover a data breach, how 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy, the top six takeaways for user privacy, vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps that put consumers and businesses at risk, and in our series about vital infrastructure, we...

ScarCruft continues to evolve, introduces Bluetooth harvester

Executive summary After publishing our initial series of blogposts back in 2016, we have continued to track the ScarCruft threat actor. ScarCruft is a Korean-speaking and allegedly state-sponsored threat actor that usually targets organizations and companies with links to the Korean peninsula. Th...

Malicious MS Office Macro Creator

Evil Clippy is a tool for creating malicious Microsoft Office macros: At BlackHat Asia we released Evil Clippy, a tool which assists red teamers and security testers in creating malicious MS Office documents. Amongst others, Evil Clippy can hide VBA macros, stomp VBA code via p-code and confuse...

Shr3dKit

This is an offensive tool for Red Team operations. The tool kit, named Shr3dKit, is a collection of scripts and tools for various stages of a Red Team engagement, including reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, command and control, lateral movement, establishing a foothold, escalating...

Qakbot levels up with new obfuscation techniques

Ashlee Benge of Cisco Talos and Nick Randolph of the Threat Grid Research and Efficacy team authored this blog post. Executive summary Qakbot, also known as Qbot, is a well-documented banking trojan that has been around since 2008. Recent Qakbot campaigns, however, are utilizing an updated...

Information disclosure

Anomali Agave formerly Drupot through 1.0.0 fails to avoid fingerprinting by including predictable data and minimal variation in size within HTML templates, giving attackers the ability to detect and avoid this system...

Applocker Evasion - .NET Framework Installation Utility

This module will assist you in evading Microsoft Windows Applocker and Software Restriction Policies. This technique utilises the Microsoft signed binary InstallUtil.exe to execute user supplied code. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

CARBANAK Week Part Two: Continuing the CARBANAK Source Code Analysis

Update April 30: Following the release of our four-part CARBANAK Week blog series, many readers have found places to make the data shared in these posts actionable. We have updated this post to include some of this information. In the previous installment, we wrote about how string hashing was us...

CVE-2019-11358

jQuery before 3.4.0, as used in Drupal, Backdrop CMS, and other products, mishandles jQuery.extendtrue, , … because of Object.prototype pollution. If an unsanitized source object contained an enumerable proto property, it could extend the native Object.prototype. Recent assessments: ANHKWAR at Ma...