Sandbox in security: what is it, and how it relates to malware

To better understand modern malware detection methods, it’s a good idea to look at sandboxes. In cybersecurity, the use of sandboxes has gained a lot of traction over the last decade or so. With the plethora of new malware coming our way every day, security researchers needed something to test ne...

Steganography Anchors Pinpoint Attacks on Industrial Targets

A targeted series of attacks on suppliers of equipment and software for industrial enterprises is playing out globally, researchers said, hinging on phishing and a steganography tactic to hide malware on public, legitimate image resources. According to Kaspersky ICS CERT, the attacks seem bent on...

RSAC 2019: Microsoft Zero-Day Allows Exploits to Sneak Past Sandboxes

SAN FRANCISCO – A previously unknown bug in Microsoft Office has been spotted being actively exploited in the wild; it can be used to bypass security solutions and sandboxes, according to findings released at the RSA Conference 2019. The bug exists in the OLE file format and the way it’s handled ...

Threat Round Up for Feb 16 - 23

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between February 16 and February 23. 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...

CVE-2017-5123

Insufficient data validation in waitid allowed an user to escape sandboxes on Linux...

Malware vaccination tricks: blue pills or red pills

First, let me explain what I mean by malware vaccination tricks. Most of you will have heard about some of these. Vaccination tricks are in fact techniques that use safety checks done by malware against that same malware. The malware checks for the presence of certain files or registry keys as a...

Pafish - Tool to Detect Sandboxes and Analysis Environments in the Same Way as Malware Families Do

Pafish is a demonstration tool that employs several techniques to detect sandboxes and analysis environments in the same way as malware families do. The project is open source, you can read the code of all anti-analysis checks. Scope The objective of this project is to collect usual tricks seen i...

CVE-2017-10053

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: 2D. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u151, 7u141 and 8u131; Java SE Embedded: 8u131; JRockit: R28.3.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network...

Rapid7: Supporting the Community at BSides Boston

One of the things I love about working at Rapid7 is how deeply this company embodies the concept of giving back to the Security Community. Whether it be discussing research on adversary analytics, attack methods for breaking out of sandboxes, or simply breaking into the industry - Rapid7 encourag...

Apple Mac OSX - Kernel Use-After-Free and Double Delete Due to Incorrect Locking in Intel GPU Driver

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=708 The external methods IGAccelGLContext::unmapusermemory and IGAccelCLContext::unmapusermemory take an 8 byte struct input which is a user-space pointer previously passed to the...

Sandboxed Execution Environment: SEE

Sandboxed Execution Environment SEE is a framework for building test automation in secured Environments. The Sandboxes, provided via libvirt, are customizable allowing high degree of flexibility. Different type of Hypervisors Qemu, VirtualBox, LXC can be employed to run the Test Environments...

Codetainer - A Docker Container In Your Browser

codetainer allows you to create code 'sandboxes' you can embed in your web applications think of it like an OSS clone of codepicnic.com . Codetainer runs as a webservice and provides APIs to create, view, and attach to the sandbox along with a nifty HTML terminal you can interact with the sandbox...

Internet Bug Bounty: Internet-based attacker can run Flash apps in local sandboxes by using special URL schemes (PSIRT-3299, CVE-2015-3079)

Some of the sandbox logic of Flash Player can be circumvented on most web browsers by using special URL schemes. A website can deploy an SWF file via the data: or blob: URL schemes perhaps others. An app started in this way runs in the "local with files" or "local with networking" sandbox,...

In-Console-Able

Posted by James Forshaw, giving the security community a shoulder to cry on. TL;DR; this blog post describes an unfixed bug in Windows 8.1 which allows you to escape restrictive job objects in order to help to develop a sandbox escape chain in Chrome or similar sandboxes. If you’re trying to...

RHEL 6 : xorg-x11-server (RHSA-2013:1620)

Updated xorg-x11-server packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severit...

Going Back to the Future in the Name of Better Security

NEW YORK–If Bill Cheswick had his way, the future of computing and computer security would look a lot like the distant past, with trusted platforms, small programs, applications that can’t affect the operating system and resistance to user mistakes. Cheswick, a former Bell Labs computer scientist...

Malware Evasion Techniques Dissected at Black Hat

Malware ingenuity isn’t limited to its functionality or its ability to propagate. Sometimes malicious code has to have guile to survive. That means for the most part having an innate understanding of when it’s being analyzed by a security expert. Numerous samples from different malware families...

Firefox, Java, Flash All Taken Down at Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER–Finding and exploiting new vulnerabilities in the major browsers has become a difficult exercise for security researchers, thanks to the exploit mitigations, sandboxes and other protections that Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have added in the last few years. The same has become true of...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 17.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Mozilla SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities-02 November12 (Mac OS X)

This host is installed with Mozilla Seamonkey and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmozillaseamonkeymultvuln02nov12macosx.nasl 6074 2017-05-05 09:03:14Z teissa $ Mozilla SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities-02 November12 Mac OS X Authors: Arun Kallavi Copyright...