Highly Flexible Marap Malware Enters the Financial Scene

A newly discovered downloader malware has been discovered as part of a new campaign primarily targeting financial institutions. Researchers at Proofpoint said today that the downloader – dubbed “Marap” after its command-and-control phone-home parameter, “param,” spelled backwards – is notable for...

New Trickbot Variant Touts Stealthy Code-Injection Trick

Trickbot has been around since 2016 – but a new variant of the infamous financial trojan has caught the eyes of researchers with a stealthy code-injection technique. Researchers at Cyberbit this week said that they have found a new Trickbot iteration that features a sneaky method of performing...

Process Doppelgänging meets Process Hollowing in Osiris dropper

One of the Holly Grails for malware authors is a perfect way to impersonate a legitimate process. That would allow them to run their malicious module under the cover, being unnoticed by antivirus products. Over the years, various techniques have emerged in helping them to get closer to this goal...

Raccoon - A High Performance Offensive Security Tool For Reconnaissance And Vulnerability Scanning

Offensive Security Tool for Reconnaissance and Information Gathering. Features DNS details DNS visual mapping using DNS dumpster WHOIS information TLS Data - supported ciphers, TLS versions, certificate details and SANs Port Scan Services and scripts scan URL fuzzing and dir/file detection...

On the Hunt for FIN7: Pursuing an Enigmatic and Evasive Global Criminal Operation

FIN7’s Innovation Enabled their Success Throughout FireEye’s tracking of FIN7 campaigns, the attackers have attempted to stay ahead of the game and thwart detection, using novel tactics and displaying characteristics of a well-resourced operation. For example, in April 2017, FireEye blogged about...

Multiple Cobalt Personality Disorder

Introduction Despite the notion that modern cybersecurity protocols have stopped email-based attacks, email continues to be one of the primary attack vectors for malicious actors — both for widespread and targeted operations. Recently, Cisco Talos has observed numerous email-based attacks that ar...

Updated AZORult Spyware Comes with Sophisticated New Techniques

An updated version of the AZORult spyware has been sighted as the payload in a large spam campaign – just one day after debuting on the Dark Web. AZORult steals information and can download additional malware; it’s been around since at least 2016, when Proofpoint researchers identified it as part...

Parasite HTTP RAT loaded with advanced detection evasion capability

By Waqas Proofpoint researchers have discovered a new remote access Trojan RAT as well as an updated version of an already identified banking Trojan and claim that both the RATs are involved in recently detected phishing campaigns targeting the retail, healthcare and IT industries. Emails...

The Trickster Hackers – Backdoor Obfuscation and Evasion Techniques

A backdoor is a method for bypassing the normal authentication or encryption of a system. Sometimes developers construct backdoors to their own programs for various reasons. For example, to provide easy maintenance, developers introduce a backdoor that enables them to restore the manufacturer’s...

Payload Generation Framework: SharpShooter

SharpShooter is a payload creation framework for the retrieval and execution of arbitrary CSharp source code. SharpShooter is capable of creating payloads in a variety of formats, including HTA, JS, VBS and WSF. It leverages James Forshaw’s DotNetToJavaScript tool to invoke methods from the...

SUN-RPC Segmentation Evasion Technique

SunRPC protocol is vulnerable to evasion techniques over its data connection. An attacker may try to evade inspection using segmentation evasion technique...

Threat Roundup for June 16-22

As usual, we are bringing you the weekly Threat Roundup to highlight the most prevalent threats we've seen between June 15 and 22. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior...

Mylobot Botnet Emerges with Rare Level of Complexity

An unusual botnet dubbed Mylobot has emerged, percolating up from the Dark Web – and displaying a never-before-seen level of complexity in terms of the sheer breadth of its various tools, especially evasion techniques. According to an analysis posted on Tuesday by Tom Nipravsky, a security...

Magento Hackers Using Simple Evasion Trick to Reinfect Sites With Malware

Security researchers have been warning of a new trick that cybercriminals are leveraging to hide their malicious code designed to re-introduce the infection to steal confidential information from Magento based online e-commerce websites. So, if you have already cleaned up your hacked Magento...

APT15 Pokes Its Head Out With Upgraded MirageFox RAT

The elusive APT15 cyber-espionage group, believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government, has been spotted for the first time in many months, mounting a highly targeted spy campaign using an upgraded version of the Mirage remote access trojan. This is the first evidence of the China-linked...

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 F-Secure XFENCE and Little Flocker. 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 t...

CVE-2018-10403

An issue was discovered in F-Secure XFENCE and Little Flocker. 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 t...

CVE-2018-10406

An issue was discovered in Yelp OSXCollector. 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...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Carbon Black Cb Response. 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 malicio...