Handler on Duty: Xavier Mertens
Threat Level: green
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ISC StormCast for Friday, August 28th 2015
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Obfuscating Malicious Word Macros Inside PDFs
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/PDF+maldoc1+maldoc2/20079/
Patch For BitTorrent Traffic Amplification Bug
http://engineering.bittorrent.com/2015/08/27/drdos-udp-based-protocols-and-bittorrent/
Adobe Cold Fusion Patch
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb15-21.html
Iranian Attackers Phish Google 2FA Tokens
https://citizenlab.org/2015/08/iran_two_factor_phishing/
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/PDF+maldoc1+maldoc2/20079/
Patch For BitTorrent Traffic Amplification Bug
http://engineering.bittorrent.com/2015/08/27/drdos-udp-based-protocols-and-bittorrent/
Adobe Cold Fusion Patch
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb15-21.html
Iranian Attackers Phish Google 2FA Tokens
https://citizenlab.org/2015/08/iran_two_factor_phishing/
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The article linked by SANS, in turn references a report by the Israeli company Clearskysec, which in turn references a non-existent Google cache entry from Florida's College of Arts (???). See for yourselves at page 14 of http://www.clearskysec.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Thamar-Reservoir-public1.pdf (version as of today 2015-08-28).
The other "intelligence" could have been intentionally spoofed: Iranian IP addresses (botnet?), a blog in Farsi (with an English name), free Iranian hosting service (without its access logs), domain registration details (can be set/changed to anything) and lastly the phone call in Farsi... I don't always send phishing, but when I do, I always phone in my native language disclosing my nationality and leaving a voice fingerprint.
All I ask is that you please label a guess as such.