Diaries by Keyword - SANS Internet Storm Center

Handler on Duty: Didier Stevens

Threat Level: green

Date	Author	Title
ANTI VIRUS
2024-01-24	Johannes Ullrich	How Bad User Interfaces Make Security Tools Harmful
2013-08-03	Deborah Hale	What Anti-virus Program Is Right For You?
2013-06-07	Daniel Wesemann	100% Compliant (for 65% of the systems)
2013-04-26	Russ McRee	What is "up to date anti-virus software"?
2012-06-19	Daniel Wesemann	Vulnerabilityqueerprocessbrittleness
2012-05-16	Johannes Ullrich	Avira Antivirus false positives http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=144875
2012-04-13	Daniel Wesemann	Anti-virus scanning exclusions
2011-05-31	Johannes Ullrich	Apple Improving OS X Anti-Malware Feature
2011-05-19	Daniel Wesemann	Fake AV Bingo
2011-01-18	Daniel Wesemann	Yet another rogue anti-virus
2010-11-11	Daniel Wesemann	Fake AV scams via Skype Chat
2010-02-15	Johannes Ullrich	Various Olympics Related Dangerous Google Searches
2009-12-03	Mark Hofman	Avast false positives
ANTI
2024-11-19/a>	Xavier Mertens	Detecting the Presence of a Debugger in Linux
2024-06-06/a>	Xavier Mertens	Malicious Python Script with a "Best Before" Date
2024-03-19/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Attacker Hunting Firewalls
2024-01-24/a>	Johannes Ullrich	How Bad User Interfaces Make Security Tools Harmful
2024-01-18/a>	Johannes Ullrich	More Scans for Ivanti Connect "Secure" VPN. Exploits Public
2024-01-16/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Scans for Ivanti Connect "Secure" VPN Vulnerability (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887)
2023-11-17/a>	Jan Kopriva	Phishing page with trivial anti-analysis features
2022-06-01/a>	Jan Kopriva	HTML phishing attachments - now with anti-analysis features
2022-03-27/a>	Didier Stevens	Video: Maldoc Cleaned by Anti-Virus
2021-07-06/a>	Xavier Mertens	Python DLL Injection Check
2021-05-21/a>	Xavier Mertens	Locking Kernel32.dll As Anti-Debugging Technique
2020-12-29/a>	Jan Kopriva	Want to know what's in a folder you don't have a permission to access? Try asking your AV solution...
2020-11-25/a>	Xavier Mertens	Live Patching Windows API Calls Using PowerShell
2020-11-19/a>	Xavier Mertens	PowerShell Dropper Delivering Formbook
2020-08-31/a>	Didier Stevens	Finding The Original Maldoc
2020-08-29/a>	Didier Stevens	Malicious Excel Sheet with a NULL VT Score: More Info
2020-06-04/a>	Xavier Mertens	Anti-Debugging Technique based on Memory Protection
2020-01-23/a>	Xavier Mertens	Complex Obfuscation VS Simple Trick
2018-06-25/a>	Didier Stevens	Guilty by association
2016-12-24/a>	Didier Stevens	Pinging All The Way
2016-10-17/a>	Didier Stevens	Maldoc VBA Anti-Analysis: Video
2016-10-15/a>	Didier Stevens	Maldoc VBA Anti-Analysis
2015-12-05/a>	Guy Bruneau	Are you looking to setup your own Malware Sandbox?
2015-07-03/a>	Didier Stevens	Analyzing Quarantine Files
2015-06-28/a>	Didier Stevens	The EICAR Test File
2014-05-27/a>	Kevin Shortt	Avast forums hacked
2013-08-03/a>	Deborah Hale	What Anti-virus Program Is Right For You?
2013-06-07/a>	Daniel Wesemann	100% Compliant (for 65% of the systems)
2013-04-26/a>	Russ McRee	What is "up to date anti-virus software"?
2012-11-02/a>	Daniel Wesemann	The shortcomings of anti-virus software
2012-06-19/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Vulnerabilityqueerprocessbrittleness
2012-05-16/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Avira Antivirus false positives http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=144875
2012-04-26/a>	Richard Porter	Define Irony: A medical device with a Virus?
2012-04-13/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Anti-virus scanning exclusions
2011-07-11/a>	John Bambenek	Another Defense Contractor Hacked in AntiSec Hacktivism Spree
2011-06-02/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Some Insight into Apple's Anti-Virus Signatures
2011-05-31/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Apple Improving OS X Anti-Malware Feature
2011-05-19/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Fake AV Bingo
2011-03-17/a>	Kevin Liston	So You Got an AV Alert. Now What?
2011-03-09/a>	Kevin Shortt	AVG Anti-Virus 2011 False Positives - Luhe.Exploit.PDF.B
2011-03-01/a>	Daniel Wesemann	AV software and "sharing samples"
2011-01-18/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Yet another rogue anti-virus
2010-11-11/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Fake AV scams via Skype Chat
2010-05-26/a>	Bojan Zdrnja	Malware modularization and AV detection evasion
2010-02-15/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Various Olympics Related Dangerous Google Searches
2009-12-14/a>	Adrien de Beaupre	Anti-forensics, COFEE vs. DECAF
2009-12-03/a>	Mark Hofman	Avast false positives
2009-09-25/a>	Lenny Zeltser	Categories of Common Malware Traits
2009-09-17/a>	Bojan Zdrnja	Why is Rogue/Fake AV so successful?
2009-09-04/a>	Adrien de Beaupre	Fake anti-virus
2009-08-29/a>	Guy Bruneau	Immunet Protect - Cloud and Community Malware Protection
2009-08-19/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Checking your protection
2009-08-13/a>	Johannes Ullrich	CA eTrust update crashes systems
2009-07-11/a>	Marcus Sachs	Imageshack
2008-09-15/a>	donald smith	Fake antivirus 2009 and search engine results
2006-10-30/a>	William Salusky	ToD - Configuration Management - maintaining security awareness
VIRUS
2024-09-06/a>	Jesse La Grew	Enrichment Data: Keeping it Fresh
2024-02-25/a>	Guy Bruneau	Utilizing the VirusTotal API to Query Files Uploaded to DShield Honeypot [Guest Diary]
2024-02-06/a>	Jan Kopriva	Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really)
2024-01-24/a>	Johannes Ullrich	How Bad User Interfaces Make Security Tools Harmful
2022-09-12/a>	Johannes Ullrich	VirusTotal Result Comparisons for Honeypot Malware
2022-03-27/a>	Didier Stevens	Video: Maldoc Cleaned by Anti-Virus
2022-03-10/a>	Xavier Mertens	Credentials Leaks on VirusTotal
2021-10-20/a>	Xavier Mertens	Thanks to COVID-19, New Types of Documents are Lost in The Wild
2021-03-06/a>	Xavier Mertens	Spotting the Red Team on VirusTotal!
2020-12-29/a>	Jan Kopriva	Want to know what's in a folder you don't have a permission to access? Try asking your AV solution...
2020-11-25/a>	Xavier Mertens	Live Patching Windows API Calls Using PowerShell
2020-11-18/a>	Xavier Mertens	When Security Controls Lead to Security Issues
2020-08-31/a>	Didier Stevens	Finding The Original Maldoc
2020-08-29/a>	Didier Stevens	Malicious Excel Sheet with a NULL VT Score: More Info
2020-08-24/a>	Xavier Mertens	Tracking A Malware Campaign Through VT
2020-05-06/a>	Xavier Mertens	Keeping an Eye on Malicious Files Life Time
2020-04-03/a>	Xavier Mertens	Obfuscated with a Simple 0x0A
2020-01-27/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Network Security Perspective on Coronavirus Preparedness
2020-01-23/a>	Xavier Mertens	Complex Obfuscation VS Simple Trick
2019-12-15/a>	Didier Stevens	VirusTotal Email Submissions
2019-06-28/a>	Rob VandenBrink	Verifying Running Processes against VirusTotal - Domain-Wide
2019-02-11/a>	Didier Stevens	Have You Seen an Email Virus Recently?
2018-06-25/a>	Didier Stevens	Guilty by association
2017-01-06/a>	John Bambenek	Great Misadventures of Security Vendors: Absurd Sandboxing Edition
2016-01-23/a>	Didier Stevens	Sigcheck and VirusTotal for Offline Machine
2015-12-05/a>	Guy Bruneau	Are you looking to setup your own Malware Sandbox?
2015-08-06/a>	Didier Stevens	Sigcheck and virustotal-search
2015-07-21/a>	Didier Stevens	Searching Through the VirusTotal Database
2015-07-17/a>	Didier Stevens	Process Explorer and VirusTotal
2015-07-17/a>	Didier Stevens	Autoruns and VirusTotal
2015-07-17/a>	Didier Stevens	Sigcheck and VirusTotal
2015-06-28/a>	Didier Stevens	The EICAR Test File
2014-10-03/a>	Johannes Ullrich	CSAM: The Power of Virustotal to Turn Harmless Binaries Malicious
2014-05-27/a>	Kevin Shortt	Avast forums hacked
2014-02-07/a>	Rob VandenBrink	Hello Virustotal? It's Microsoft Calling.
2013-10-30/a>	Russ McRee	SIR v15: Five good reasons to leave Windows XP behind
2013-08-03/a>	Deborah Hale	What Anti-virus Program Is Right For You?
2013-06-07/a>	Daniel Wesemann	100% Compliant (for 65% of the systems)
2013-04-26/a>	Russ McRee	What is "up to date anti-virus software"?
2012-12-03/a>	John Bambenek	John McAfee Exposes His Location in Photo About His Being on Run
2012-11-29/a>	Kevin Shortt	New Apple Security Update: APPLE-SA-2012-11-29-1 Apple TV 5.1.1
2012-11-28/a>	Mark Hofman	McAfee releases extraDAT for W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb-h
2012-11-28/a>	Mark Hofman	New version of wireshark is available (1.8.4), some security fixes included.
2012-11-27/a>	Chris Mohan	Can users' phish emails be a security admin's catch of the day?
2012-11-26/a>	John Bambenek	Online Shopping for the Holidays? Tips, News and a Fair Warning
2012-11-20/a>	John Bambenek	Behind the Random NTP Bizarreness of Incorrect Year Being Set
2012-11-20/a>	John Bambenek	Firefox v 17.0 just released, more here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/17.0/releasenotes/
2012-11-19/a>	John Bambenek	MoneyGram fined $100 million for aiding wire fraud - http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/moneygram-fined-100-million-for-wire-fraud/
2012-11-19/a>	John Bambenek	New Poll: Top 5 Unresolved Security Problems of 2012
2012-11-17/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	New Sysinternal Updates: AdExplorer v1.44, Contig v1.7, Coreinfo v3.2, Procdump v5.1. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/11/16/updates-adexplorer-v1-44-contig-v1-7-coreinfo-v3-2-procdump-v5-1.aspx?Redirected=true
2012-11-12/a>	John Bambenek	Request for info: Robocall Phishing Against Local/Regional Banks
2012-11-09/a>	Mark Baggett	Remote Diagnostics with PSR
2012-11-09/a>	Mark Baggett	Fresh batch of Microsoft patches next week
2012-11-07/a>	Mark Baggett	Help eliminate unquoted path vulnerabilities
2012-11-07/a>	Mark Baggett	Multiple 0-Days Reported!
2012-11-07/a>	Mark Baggett	Cisco TACACS+ Authentication Bypass
2012-11-05/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Reminder: Ongoing SMTP Brute Forcing Attacks
2012-11-05/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Possible Fake-AV Ads from Doubleclick Servers
2012-11-04/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	What's important on your network?
2012-11-02/a>	Daniel Wesemann	The shortcomings of anti-virus software
2012-10-31/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 31 - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
2012-10-30/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Hurricane Sandy Update
2012-10-30/a>	Richard Porter	Splunk 5.0 SP-CAAAHB4 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHB4
2012-10-28/a>	Tony Carothers	Firefox 16.02 Released
2012-10-26/a>	Russ McRee	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 26 - Attackers use trusted domain to propagate Citadel Zeus variant
2012-10-25/a>	Richard Porter	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 25 - Pro Audio & Video Packets on the Wire
2012-10-24/a>	Russ McRee	Ongoing Windstream outage in the midwest - https://twitter.com/search?q=windstream
2012-10-21/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 22: Connectors
2012-10-21/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	Potential Phish for Regular Webmail Accounts
2012-10-19/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19: Standard log formats and CEE.
2012-10-18/a>	Rob VandenBrink	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 18 - Vendor Standards: The vSphere Hardening Guide
2012-10-17/a>	Mark Hofman	New Acrobat release (including reader) available. Version 11. Some security improvements more here -->http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/
2012-10-16/a>	Richard Porter	CyberAwareness Month - Day 15, Standards Body Soup (pt2), Same Soup Different Cook.
2012-10-16/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 16: W3C and HTML
2012-10-14/a>	Pedro Bueno	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 14 - Poor Man's File Analysis System - Part 1
2012-10-09/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Microsoft October 2012 Black Tuesday Update - Overview
2012-10-07/a>	Tony Carothers	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 7 - Rollup Review of CSAM Week 1
2012-10-05/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 5: Standards Body Soup, So many Flavors in the bowl.
2012-10-05/a>	Richard Porter	VMWare Security Advisory: VMSA-2012-0014 - http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html
2012-10-05/a>	Richard Porter	Reports of a Distributed Injection Scan
2012-10-04/a>	Mark Hofman	And the SHA-3 title goes to .....Keccak
2012-10-01/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month
2012-09-28/a>	Joel Esler	Adobe certification revocation for October 4th
2012-09-26/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Some Android phones can be reset to factory default by clicking on links
2012-09-26/a>	Johannes Ullrich	More Java Woes
2012-09-21/a>	Johannes Ullrich	iOS 6 Security Roundup
2012-09-19/a>	Russ McRee	Script kiddie scavenging with Shellbot.S
2012-09-17/a>	Rob VandenBrink	What's on your iPad?
2012-09-14/a>	Lenny Zeltser	Scam Report - Fake Voice Mail Email Notification Redirects to Malicious Site
2012-09-13/a>	Mark Baggett	Microsoft disrupts traffic associated with the Nitol botnet
2012-09-13/a>	Mark Baggett	More SSL trouble
2012-09-10/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Microsoft Patch Tuesday Pre-Release
2012-09-10/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Godaddy DDoS Attack
2012-09-06/a>	Johannes Ullrich	SSL Requests sent to port 80 (request for help/input)
2012-09-04/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Another round of "Spot the Exploit E-Mail"
2012-09-02/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	Demonstrating the value of your Intrusion Detection Program and Analysts
2012-09-01/a>	Russ McRee	Blackhole targeting Java vulnerability via fake Microsoft Services Agreement email phish
2012-08-30/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Editorial: The Slumlord Approach to Network Security http://isc.sans.edu/j/editorial
2012-08-29/a>	Johannes Ullrich	"Data" URLs used for in-URL phishing
2012-08-27/a>	Johannes Ullrich	The Good, Bad and Ugly about Assigning IPv6 Addresses
2012-08-27/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Malware Spam harvesting Facebook Information
2012-08-26/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	Who ya gonna contact?
2012-08-20/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Do we need test procedures in our companies before implementing Antivirus signatures?
2012-08-19/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Authentication Issues between entities during protocol message exchange in SCADA Systems
2012-08-12/a>	Tony Carothers	Layers of the Defense-in-Depth Onion
2012-08-12/a>	Tony Carothers	Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2012-3132
2012-08-09/a>	Mark Hofman	Zeus/Citadel variant causing issues in the Netherlands
2012-08-09/a>	Mark Hofman	SQL Injection Lilupophilupop style, Part 2
2012-08-07/a>	Adrien de Beaupre	Who protects small business?
2012-08-04/a>	Kevin Liston	Vendors: More Patch-Release Options Please
2012-07-27/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Cuckoo 0.4 is out - cool new features for malware analysis http://www.cuckoosandbox.org/
2012-07-24/a>	Richard Porter	Wireshark 1.8.1 Released http://www.wireshark.org/
2012-07-24/a>	Richard Porter	Report of spike in DNS Queries gd21.net
2012-07-20/a>	Mark Baggett	Syria Internet connection cut?
2012-07-19/a>	Mark Baggett	Diagnosing Malware with Resource Monitor
2012-07-19/a>	Mark Baggett	A Heap of Overflows?
2012-07-16/a>	Richard Porter	Sysinternals Update @ http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/07/16/updates-handle-v3-5-process-explorer-v15-22-process-monitor-v3-03-rammap-v1-21-zoomit-v4-3.aspx
2012-07-13/a>	Richard Porter	Yesterday (not as on the ball as Rob) at SANSFire
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Immersive Endpoint Devices - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-cts
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Manager - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctsman
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctms
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Recording Server - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctrs
2012-07-09/a>	Johannes Ullrich	The FBI will turn off the Internet on Monday (or not)
2012-07-09/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Internet Storm Center panel tonight at SANSFIRE 2012!
2012-07-05/a>	Adrien de Beaupre	New OS X trojan backdoor MaControl variant reported
2012-07-02/a>	Joel Esler	A rough guide to keeping your website up
2012-07-02/a>	Joel Esler	Linux & Java leap second bug
2012-06-29/a>	Jim Clausing	Updated SysInternals tools - Autoruns, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, PSKill -- http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/06/28/updates-autoruns-v11-32-process-explorer-v15-21-process-monitor-v3-02-pskill-v1-15-rammap-v1-2.aspx
2012-06-21/a>	Russ McRee	Analysis of drive-by attack sample set
2012-06-21/a>	Russ McRee	Wireshark 1.8.0 released 21 JUN 2012 http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
2012-06-19/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Vulnerabilityqueerprocessbrittleness
2012-05-16/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Avira Antivirus false positives http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=144875
2012-04-26/a>	Richard Porter	Define Irony: A medical device with a Virus?
2012-04-13/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Anti-virus scanning exclusions
2012-03-05/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Flashback Malware now with Twitter C&C
2011-07-02/a>	Pedro Bueno	Bootkits, they are back at full speed...
2011-06-02/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Some Insight into Apple's Anti-Virus Signatures
2011-05-31/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Apple Improving OS X Anti-Malware Feature
2011-05-19/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Fake AV Bingo
2011-04-20/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Virustotal.com hiccup
2011-03-17/a>	Kevin Liston	So You Got an AV Alert. Now What?
2011-03-09/a>	Kevin Shortt	AVG Anti-Virus 2011 False Positives - Luhe.Exploit.PDF.B
2011-03-01/a>	Daniel Wesemann	AV software and "sharing samples"
2011-02-07/a>	Pedro Bueno	The Good , the Bad and the Unknown Online Scanners
2011-01-18/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Yet another rogue anti-virus
2011-01-10/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Facebook virus spreads via photo album chat messages
2011-01-10/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	VirusTotal VTzilla firefox/chrome plugin
2010-11-11/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Fake AV scams via Skype Chat
2010-09-09/a>	Marcus Sachs	'Here You Have' Email
2010-06-14/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Small lot of Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 shipped with malware
2010-05-26/a>	Bojan Zdrnja	Malware modularization and AV detection evasion
2010-02-15/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Various Olympics Related Dangerous Google Searches
2009-12-03/a>	Mark Hofman	Avast false positives
2009-09-25/a>	Lenny Zeltser	Categories of Common Malware Traits
2009-09-17/a>	Bojan Zdrnja	Why is Rogue/Fake AV so successful?
2009-08-29/a>	Guy Bruneau	Immunet Protect - Cloud and Community Malware Protection
2009-08-19/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Checking your protection
2009-08-13/a>	Johannes Ullrich	CA eTrust update crashes systems
2008-09-15/a>	donald smith	Fake antivirus 2009 and search engine results
2006-10-30/a>	William Salusky	ToD - Configuration Management - maintaining security awareness
2000-01-02/a>	Deborah Hale	2010 A Look Back - 2011 A Look Ahead

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