Re: [Full-disclosure] Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

2012-02-22 Thread Nate Theis
Hmm, interesting AV evasion technique: Seemingly legitimate app, but the download page gives both a malicious DLL and the main executable, the main executable uses LoadLibrary insecurely. On Feb 22, 2012 9:33 AM, "ACROS Security Lists" wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > > I don't believe a PE/PE+ executable n

Re: [Full-disclosure] Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

2012-02-22 Thread ACROS Security Lists
Hi Jeff, > I don't believe a PE/PE+ executable needs a DLL extension to > be loaded by LoadLibrary and friends. True, any file can be loaded this way, but our pretty extensive experimenting showed extremely few cases where legitimate applications (in this case mostly installers) loaded anythi

Re: [Full-disclosure] Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

2012-02-20 Thread Grandma Eubanks
Malware has been using it to spread through local shares and also using it as easy privilege escalations for known trusted software. Like I said and have always said, the vectors are going to be local and for further compromise. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Sanguinarious Rose < sanguiner...@oc

Re: [Full-disclosure] Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

2012-02-20 Thread Sanguinarious Rose
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Mitja, > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, ACROS Security Lists wrote: >> >> This blog post reveals a bit of our research and provides an advance >> notification of >> a largely unknown remote exploit technique on Windows. More import

Re: [Full-disclosure] Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

2012-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Kyle Creyts wrote: > Did this talk _really_ get accepted at RSA? Wow. While other conferences might be more appropriate, the acceptance underlines the problem with insecure library loading on Windows. Its still a big problem. Windows is not alone, and Linux suffer

Re: [Full-disclosure] Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

2012-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Mitja, On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, ACROS Security Lists wrote: > > This blog post reveals a bit of our research and provides an advance > notification of > a largely unknown remote exploit technique on Windows. More importantly, it > provides > instructions for protecting your computer