AZORult Campaign Adopts Novel Triple-Encryption Technique

A recent wave of AZORult-laced spam caught the attention of researchers who warn that malicious attachments associated with the campaign are using a novel obfuscation technique, in an attempt to slip past spam gateways and avoid client-side antivirus detection. What makes this campaign unique is...

Advanced Obfuscation Marks Widespread Info-Stealing Campaign

A large-scale spam campaign bent on spreading info-stealing malware is applying advanced obfuscation techniques to get around security scanning and maximize infection rates. According to Lastline researchers, a large botnet is distributing malicious rich text format RTF documents that act as...

Obfuscapk - A Black-Box Obfuscation Tool For Android Apps

Obfuscapk is a modular Python tool for obfuscating Android apps without needing their source code, since apktool is used to decompile the original apk file and to build a new application, after applying some obfuscation techniques on the decompiled smali code, resources and manifest. The obfuscat...

PythonAESObfuscate - Obfuscates A Python Script And The Accompanying Shellcode

Pythonic way to load shellcode. Builds an EXE for you too! Usage Place a payload.bin raw shellcode file in the same directory. Default Architecture is x86 run python obfuscate.py Default output is out.py Requirements Windows Python 2.7 Pyinstaller PyCrypto PyCryptodome didn't seem to work Downloa...

Joker Android Malware Snowballs on Google Play

Google has removed 17,000 Android apps to date from the Play store that have been conduits for the Joker malware a.k.a. Bread – and in an analysis of the code, said that Joker’s operators have “at some point used just about every cloaking and obfuscation technique under the sun in an attempt to g...

CVE-2019-6331

An issue was found in Samsung Mobile Print Android versions prior to 4.08.007. A potential security vulnerability caused by incomplete obfuscation of application configuration information...

CVE-2019-6331

An issue was found in Samsung Mobile Print Android versions prior to 4.08.007. A potential security vulnerability caused by incomplete obfuscation of application configuration information...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was found in Samsung Mobile Print Android versions prior to 4.08.007. A potential security vulnerability caused by incomplete obfuscation of application configuration information...

CVE-2019-6331

The CVE-2019-6331 issue affects Samsung Mobile Print (Android)

Multiple Apple Products Kernel Component Type Obfuscation Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices.Apple tvOS is a smart TV operating system.Apple watchOS is a smart watch operating system.Kernel is one of the kernel components. A type obfuscation vulnerability exists in the Kernel component of several Apple products. An attacker...

Quark-Engine - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System

An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System Concepts Android malware analysis engine is not a new story. Every antivirus company has their own secrets to build it. With curiosity, we develop a malware scoring system from the perspective of Taiwan Criminal Law in an easy but solid way. W...

venom

This is a Metasploit framework module for generating shellcode and compiling it into an executable file. The module, named "venom," is designed to produce shellcode in various formats C, Python, Ruby, DLL, MSI, HTA-PSH and inject it into a template e.g., Python that executes the shellcode in RAM...

New version of IcedID Trojan uses steganographic payloads

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, with contributions from @siriurz and Jérôme Segura. Security firm Proofpoint recently published a report about a series of malspam campaigns they attribute to a threat actor called TA2101. Originally targeting German and Italian users with Cobalt Strik...

LuaJIT Type Obfuscation Vulnerability

LuaJIT is an on-the-fly compiler for the Lua language. A type-obfuscation vulnerability in debug.getinfo in LuaJIT 2.0.5 and earlier used in Moonjit 2.1.2 and earlier and other products can be exploited by an attacker to read or write to arbitrary memory...

Linux kernel shiftfs type obfuscation vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. A type obfuscation vulnerability exists in Linux kernel shiftfs, which allows local attackers to submit a special request that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code or conduct denial-of-service attacks...

Stealthy Malware Flies Under AV Radar with Advanced Obfuscation

Researchers warn hackers are putting a new spin on old injection techniques and successfully end-running endpoint protection. They are tracking a campaign, that kicked off in January, that is still going strong exploiting weaknesses in web browsers. The objective is to hide in the background of...

Emotet Resurgence Continues With New Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

The notorious banking trojan Emotet, that mysteriously disappeared over the summer, returned last month dropping a new collection of malware including information stealers, email harvesters, self-propagation mechanisms and ransomware. But since the malware returned from its hiatus, there was no...

Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool

This essay discusses the futility of opting out of surveillance, and suggests data obfuscation as an alternative. We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using practices and technologies that make use of it, including: The secure browser Tor, which among other anti-surveillance technologies...

.WAVs Hide Malware in Their Depths in Innovative Campaign

UPDATE Audio .WAV files are the latest hiding place for obfuscated malicious code; a campaign has been spotted in which malicious content was secretly woven throughout the file’s audio data. The embedded code consists of two different payloads: A XMRig/Monero CPU cryptominer and Metasploit code...

LOWKEY: Hunting for the Missing Volume Serial ID

In August 2019, FireEye released the “Double Dragon” report on our newest graduated threat group: APT41. A China-nexus dual espionage and financially-focused group, APT41 targets industries such as gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services. This blog...