Malware and Reversing (12)

The Honeypot Incident - How strong is your UF (Reversing FU)

Interested in capturing, documenting and analyzing scans and malicious activity, Corelan Team decided to set up a honeypot and put it online. In the first week of december 2010, Obzy built a machine (default Windows XP SP3 installation, no patches, firewall turned off), named it "EGYPTS-AIRWAYS", set up a honeypot + some other monitoring tools, and connected it to the internet. Read more
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Malicious pdf analysis : from price.zip to flashplayer.exe

This morning, my generic attachment filter for MS Exchange reported that about 100 emails were put in quarantine because they contained a small zip file. When looking inside the zip file, I found a small pdf file… I immediately figured this file was up to no good, so it was time to get my hands dirty :) Read more
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