Invoke-CradleCrafter - PowerShell Remote Download Cradle Generator and Obfuscator

Invoke-CradleCrafter is a PowerShell v2.0+ compatible PowerShell remote download cradle generator and obfuscator. Purpose Invoke-CradleCrafter exists to aid Blue Teams and Red Teams in easily exploring, generating and obfuscating PowerShell remote download cradles. In addition, it helps Blue Team...

Threat Round-up for July 28 - August 4

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 28 and August 04. As with previous round-ups, 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 characteristic...

This Retail Website Considers Password Security Optional

Most gaping security holes are terrible mistakes. But for one major Hong Kong-based online retailer called Strawberrynet, its security shortcomings are a feature. Like many ecommerce sites, registered users have an option for express checkout. What makes beauty-products website Strawberrynet uniq...

Terror Evolved: Exploit Kit Matures

This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink and Emmanuel Tacheau Executive SummaryTalos is monitoring the major Exploit KitsEK on an ongoing basis. While investigating the changes we recently observed in the RIG EK campaigns, we identified another well known candidate: Terror Exploit Kit.Terror EK...

Session Hijacking, Cookie-Stealing WordPress Malware Spotted

Researchers have identified a strain of cookie stealing malware injected into a legitimate JavaScript file, that masquerades as a WordPress core domain. Cesar Anjos, a security analyst at Sucuri, a firm that specializes in WordPress security, came across the malware during an incident response...

PowerShell Payload Stager: PowerStager

PowerShell Payload Stager This script creates an executable stager that downloads a selected powershell payload, loads it into memory and executes it using obfuscated EC methods. The script will also encrypt the stager for dynamic signatures and some additional obfuscation. This enables the actua...

FIN7 Evolution and the Phishing LNK

FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been associated with malicious operations dating back to late 2015. FIN7 is referred to by many vendors as “Carbanak Group”, although we do not equate all usage of the CARBANAK backdoor with FIN7. FireEye recently observed a FIN7 spear phishin...

CVE-2015-5013

The IBM Security Access Manager appliance includes configuration files that contain obfuscated plaintext-passwords which authenticated users can access...

Design/Logic Flaw

The IBM Security Access Manager appliance includes configuration files that contain obfuscated plaintext-passwords which authenticated users can access...

PT-2017-6806

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM Security Access Manager appliance affected versions not specified Description The issue concerns configuration files in the IBM Security Access Manager appliance that contain obfuscated plaintext-passwords. These files can be accessed by...

IBM Spectrum Protect Client VM Backup INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS Option Credentials Disclosure

The version of IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed on the remote host is 7.1.x prior to 7.1.6.4. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to the application exposing obfuscated VMware vCenter User ID and Password information during the VM backup process using th...

FLARE Script Series: Querying Dynamic State using the FireEye Labs Query-Oriented Debugger (flare-qdb)

Introduction This post continues the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE script series. Here, we introduce flare-qdb, a command-line utility and Python module based on vivisect for querying and altering dynamic binary state conveniently, iteratively, and at scale. flare-qdb works on...

Rotten Apples: Resurgence

In June 2016, we published a blog about a phishing campaign targeting the Apple IDs and passwords of Chinese Apple users that emerged in the first quarter of 2016 referred to as the “Zycode” phishing campaign. At FireEye Labs we have an automated system designed to proactively detect newly...

HelpDeskZ 1.0.2 - Arbitrary File Upload

HelpDeskZ 1.0.2 - Arbitrary File Upload ''' Updated Exploit Provided by Drew Griess Exploit Title HelpDeskZ = v1.0.2 - Unauthenticated Shell Upload Google Dork intextHelp Desk Software by HelpDeskZ Date 2016-08-26 Exploit Author Lars Morgenroth - @krankoPwnz Vendor Homepage httpwww.helpdeskz.com...

WebNMS Framework Server Credential Disclosure

This module abuses two vulnerabilities in WebNMS Framework Server 5.2 to extract all user credentials. The first vulnerability is an unauthenticated file download in the FetchFile servlet, which is used to download the file containing the user credentials. The second vulnerability is that the...

Automatically Extracting Obfuscated Strings from Malware using the FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver (FLOSS)

Introduction and Motivation Have you ever run strings.exe on a malware executable and its output provided you with IP addresses, file names, registry keys, and other indicators of compromise IOCs? Great! No need to run further analysis or hire expensive experts to determine if a file is malicious...

Automatically Extracting Obfuscated Strings from Malware using the FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver (FLOSS)

Introduction and Motivation Have you ever run strings.exe on a malware executable and its output provided you with IP addresses, file names, registry keys, and other indicators of compromise IOCs? Great! No need to run further analysis or hire expensive experts to determine if a file is malicious...

Rotten Apples: Apple-like Malicious Phishing Domains

At FireEye Labs we have an automated system designed to proactively detect newly registered malicious domains. This system observed some phishing domains registered in the first quarter of 2016 that were designed to appear as legitimate Apple domains. These phony Apple domains were involved in...

CVE-2016-4567

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in flash/FlashMediaElement.as in MediaElement.js before 2.21.0, as used in WordPress before 4.5.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an obfuscated form of the jsinitfunction parameter, as demonstrated by "jsinitfunctio%gn."...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in flash/FlashMediaElement.as in MediaElement.js before 2.21.0, as used in WordPress before 4.5.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an obfuscated form of the jsinitfunction parameter, as demonstrated by "jsinitfunctio%gn."...