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Squirreling Backdoors Into Distribution Points

2007-12-19 22:16:35 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...distribution tarball on rather than infiltrating the source code repository [1] . In this case, the backdoor was detected when a user noticed that the MD5 published on SquirrelMails website didnt match the calculated MD5 from the SourceForge distribution Since the SVN repository remained intact, we cant go back and examine the backdoor in...
 
Tags: md5 collisions, md5, md5 hashes, distribution, php, execute php code, execute, code, md5 unsafe
 
 
 
 
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Research on Malware Distribution

2008-02-26 06:23:48 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...distribution sites are hosted in China, and that 1.3% of Google searches return at least one link to a malicious site. The lead author, Niels Provos, wrote, 'It has been over a year and a half since we started to identify web pages that infect vulnerable hosts via drive-by downloads, i.e. web pages that attempt to exploit their visitors by...
 
Tags: malware, malware distribution sites, million unique urls, urls, web pages, drive-by downloads, infect vulnerable hosts, draft paper, research
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...distribution to describe this measurement, we account for the fact that under some circumstances wind speeds of less than 150 MPH might compromise the structure, while in some circumstances the structure may be able to withstand speeds greater than 200 MPH If we wanted to measure the structures vulnerability to a specific type of storm (e.g.,...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web servers. A survey of servers running roughly 80 million domain names reveals the...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web servers. A survey of servers running roughly 80 million domain names reveals the...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web servers. A survey of servers running roughly 80 million domain names reveals the...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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All Your iFrame Are Point to Us

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2008-02-11 13:57:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...distribution chain of malware, i.e. all the intermediary URLs a browser downloads before reaching a malware payload. We inspected each distribution chain for membership in about 2,000 known advertising networks. If any URL in the distribution chain corresponds to a known advertising network, we count the whole page as being infectious due to...
 
Tags: malware distribution sites, malware distribution, malware, anti-malware team, malware payload, chinese web servers, servers, regular web sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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All Your iFrame Are Point to Us

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2008-02-11 13:57:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...distribution chain of malware, i.e. all the intermediary URLs a browser downloads before reaching a malware payload. We inspected each distribution chain for membership in about 2,000 known advertising networks. If any URL in the distribution chain corresponds to a known advertising network, we count the whole page as being infectious due to...
 
Tags: malware distribution sites, malware distribution, malware, anti-malware team, malware payload, chinese web servers, servers, regular web sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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All Your iFrame Are Point to Us

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2008-02-11 13:57:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...distribution chain of malware, i.e. all the intermediary URLs a browser downloads before reaching a malware payload. We inspected each distribution chain for membership in about 2,000 known advertising networks. If any URL in the distribution chain corresponds to a known advertising network, we count the whole page as being infectious due to...
 
Tags: malware distribution sites, malware distribution, malware, anti-malware team, malware payload, chinese web servers, servers, regular web sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Pseudo Email Marketing Tools Empowering Spammers

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2008-10-29 19:28:30 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge