RAT Distributed Via Google Drive Targets East Asia

Researchers said that they are tracking a new remote access Trojan dubbed UBoatRAT that is targeting individuals or organizations linked to South Korea or the video game industry. While targets aren’t 100 percent clear, researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said UBoatRAT threats are evolving...

Belden Hirschmann Tofino Xenon Security Appliance Protocol Filter Evasion Vulnerability

The Tofino Xenon security appliance is the ideal solution for segmenting control networks into secure zones. A protocol filter evasion vulnerability exists in the Tofino Xenon security appliance prior to version 03.2.00. The vulnerability arises because the ModBus DPI filter improperly handles th...

Fake Sandbox Processes (FSP) - Tool to simulate fake processes of analysis sandbox/VM software

This small script will simulate fake processes of analysis, sandbox and/or VM software that some malware will try to avoid. You can download the original script made by @x0rz in the orig directory. You can also download my slightly optimized script in the main directory. The file is named fsp.ps1...

How to solve the Malwarebytes CrackMe: a step-by-step tutorial

The topic of this post is a Malwarebytes CrackMe—an exercise in malware analysis that I recently created. First, the challenge was created to serve internal purposes, but then it was released to the community on Twitter and triggered a lot of positive response. Thanks to all of you who sent in yo...

PowerShell Post-Exploitation Agent: Empire

Empire is a post-exploitation framework that includes a pure-PowerShell2.0 Windows agent, and a pure Python 2.6/2.7 Linux/OS X agent. It is the merge of the previous PowerShell Empire and Python EmPyre projects. The framework offers cryptologically-secure communications and a flexible architectur...

Ursnif Banking Trojan Spreading In Japan

Attackers behind the pervasive banking Trojan Ursnif have made Japan one of their top targets, delivering the malware via spam campaigns that began last month. For years, Ursnif or Gozi has targeted Japan along with North America, Europe and Australia. But according to a recent IBM X-Force analys...

Suspicious JavaScript Web Evasions

Certain evasion can use JavaScript code in order to circumvent inspection by security software. An attacker could use such evasion methods in order to execute arbitrary code on the target...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1935

pcap-linux.c in libpcap 1.1.1 before commit ea9432fabdf4b33cbc76d9437200e028f1c47c93 when snaplen is set may truncate packets, which might allow remote attackers to send arbitrary data while avoiding detection via crafted packets...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Warning: Millions Of P0rnHub Users Hit With Malvertising Attack

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint have recently discovered a large-scale malvertising campaign that exposed millions of Internet users in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Australia to malware infections. Active for more than a year and still ongoing, the malware campaign is bei...

Suspicious Evasion In HTML

Evasion tools can be useed in order to circumvent inspection by security software. An attacker could use such evasion methods in order to execute arbitrary code on the target...

Ransomware Roundup: Alternative Techniques featuring CTB-Faker

Ransomware is innovating to spread faster, hit harder and increase its payout potential. New unknown variants pop up daily, and many leverage non-malware techniques to evade traditional defenses. CTB-Faker is a perfect example of how modern ransomware is leveraging these new techniques to easily...

Bashware lets malware evade detection by exploiting Windows 10′ Linux Shell

By Waqas Bashware Technique Can Exploit Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bashware lets malware evade detection by exploiting Windows 10 Linux Shell...

DKMC - Malicious Payload Evasion Tool

Don't kill my cat is a tool that generates obfuscated shellcode that is stored inside of polyglot images. The image is 100% valid and also 100% valid shellcode. The idea is to avoid sandbox analysis since it's a simple "legit" image. For now the tool rely on PowerShell the execute the final...

UniByAv - Shellcode Obfuscator Anti-Virus Friendly

UniByAv is a simple obfuscator that take raw shellcode and generate executable that are Anti-Virus friendly. The obfuscation routine is purely writtend in assembly to remain pretty short and efficient. In a nutshell the application generate a 32 bits xor key and brute force the key at run time th...

Luckystrike - A PowerShell based utility for the creation of malicious Office macro documents

A PowerShell based utility for the creation of malicious Office macro documents. To be used for pentesting or educational purposes only. Luckystrike is a menu-drive SET style PowerShell-based generator of malicious .xls and .doc documents. All your payloads are saved into a database for easy...

Ransomware Roundup: Attacking the Master Boot Record Featuring Petya

Ransomware is innovating to spread faster, hit harder and increase its payout potential. New, unknown variants pop up daily, and many leverage non-malware techniques to evade traditional defenses. Petya is a perfect example of how modern ransomware is evolving, using new techniques to attack the...

The Malicious Macro Generator!

PenTestIT RSS Feed I'm sure you remember my older post about the malicious office document generator and the office exploitation toolkit. Just a refresher - Luckystrike is the open source script that helps you create malicious Microsoft Office documents using PowerShell and MicroSploit is an open...

Automated Android Malware Analysis: CuckooDroid

CuckooDroid is an extension of Cuckoo Sandbox the Open Source software for automating analysis of suspicious files. CuckooDroid brigs to cuckoo the capabilities of execution and analysis of android application. CuckooDroid is an automated, cross-platform, emulation and analysis framework based on...

Week in Security (August 7 – August 13)

Last week, we explained how security certificates work and how malware authors have used them to block security software from being downloaded and executed. We also showed how the Magnitude exploit kit is spreading a Cerber ransomware variant that uses binary padding in an attempt to get skipped,...