For regular readers of this blog, there is one constant that pops up over and over: malware gets more complex. When malware researchers, like myself, unlock new obfuscated code, it’s a signal to the black hats that they need to up their game. For me, figuring out their new hack attempts and then putting the findings online to help others is a day’s work, not to mention a big part of the fun. So, let’s get to the fun.
A colleague of mine, Ben Martin, sent me a piece of malicious code that had gone undetected for analysis. It’s important for us to understand how a piece of code goes undetected so that we can update our signatures and catch it the next time. After giving it a quick look, everything seemed to be clear. It certainly didn’t look like anything exceptional. Like I said before, the bad guys are always a step ahead, creating more and more sophisticated malware every day (even every hour), and we’re doing our best to make their “work” as hard as possible. This particular sample would just be properly detected and cleaned like the others. That would be the end of it except I felt like something was a little off.
Every malware researcher has some kind of sixth sense that alerts them when there’s something wrong in seemingly benign code. In this case, something just felt off and this led to me spending several hours with what turned out to be a very interesting analysis
more here..........http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/08/website-security-analysis-a-simple-piece-of-malware.html
A colleague of mine, Ben Martin, sent me a piece of malicious code that had gone undetected for analysis. It’s important for us to understand how a piece of code goes undetected so that we can update our signatures and catch it the next time. After giving it a quick look, everything seemed to be clear. It certainly didn’t look like anything exceptional. Like I said before, the bad guys are always a step ahead, creating more and more sophisticated malware every day (even every hour), and we’re doing our best to make their “work” as hard as possible. This particular sample would just be properly detected and cleaned like the others. That would be the end of it except I felt like something was a little off.
Every malware researcher has some kind of sixth sense that alerts them when there’s something wrong in seemingly benign code. In this case, something just felt off and this led to me spending several hours with what turned out to be a very interesting analysis
more here..........http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/08/website-security-analysis-a-simple-piece-of-malware.html