PDF files are used on many web resources and if we look at malwares we find that attackers always choose to include their malicious JavaScript’s in pdf files. This will help them to hide their malcode, and it can infect thousands of online document readers. This is beside the number of vulnerabilities in third party [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Malware Research’
Blackhole Exploit Kit Dominate the Web Threats
February 9th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Some online advertising companies are doing an organized way in placing their banners, there is a whole marketing team that will contact website owner to ask for placing a banner by just installing a certain plugin. This has been a very good way to manage their online marketing and what they are displaying on that [...]
Windows 8 The Art of Bootkit
January 30th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua At MalCon security conference in Mumbai, Peter Kleissner demonstrated how to install bootkit on the next Microsoft operating system Windows 8. The exploit can bypass the new security measures implemented on Windows 8 to load directly in the memory to provide attacker root privilege to the system. “Windows 8 Bootkit and Art of Bootkit Development” [...]
Reversing Malware with Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E.)
January 16th, 2012
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Malwares on mobile system are increasing dramatically, especially on android smartphone system, this week Trendmicro security lab posted about new campaign targeting this system by infecting users over web applications (One-Click Billing Fraud Scheme Through Android App Found). After infecting the smartphone with ANDROIDOS_FAKETIMER some information will be sent to certain URL’s on the web, [...]
Fake Antivirus Attack Not Out
August 21st, 2011
Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new case have been observed by Armorize researchers that discovers a mass malicious code injection on different vulnerable website on internet, Security lab estimate at least 22,400 unique domains are spreading malwares by including a malicious iFrame-code. Attackers this time didn’t succeed at this operation as they made a mistake by missing to include [...]
Rootkit War Zeroaccess Kills TDL3
August 12th, 2011
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cyber Gang have created a new way for getting income, the group is selling TDL3 malware on different underground forum with a modification of source code package that allow infected computer remove the TDL malware. Malware author have created two different versions one contains the original code and not for sale and another copy that [...]




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