Hello again, this is You ‘Tsuru’ Nakatsuru from Analysis Center. It has been just about two years since I delivered a talk “Fight Against Citadel in Japan” at CODE BLUE 2013 (an international security conference in Tokyo) about the situation on banking trojans observed in Japan at that time and detailed analysis results on Citadel (See my blog entry here). For the presentation material and audio archive, please see Reference...
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Hello, this is You ‘Tsuru’ Nakatsuru at Analysis Center. As introduced in the previous blog post, my colleagues presented on the attacks arising in Japan at CODE BLUE 2015, entitled “Revealing the Attack Operations Targeting Japan”. In this entry, I will introduce the details of an IDAPython script “emdivi_string_decryptor.py”, which JPCERT/CC developed to analyse Emdivi, a remote control malware. The script was also introduced in our presentation at CODE BLUE...
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Hello again – this is Shusei Tomonaga from Analysis Center. This blog entry is to introduce “apt17scan.py” created by JPCERT/CC to detect certain malware used in targeted attacks, and to extract its configuration information. It is a plugin for the Volatility Framework (hereinafter “Volatility”), a memory forensics tool. My colleague Yuu Nakamura and I had the honour to introduce this at CODE BLUE 2015, an international conference for information security...
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Hi, it’s Shusei Tomonaga again from the Analysis Center. PoisonIvy, a Remote Access Tool/Trojan (RAT) often used in targeted attacks, had been widely seen until around 2013. Since then, the number of cases using PoisonIvy in such attacks decreased, and there was no special variant with expanded features seen in the wild. However, recently, we have observed cases where PoisonIvy with expanded features in its communication function were used for...
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Hello all, this is Yohei Tanaka from Analysis Center. In this article, I will introduce how recent malware tries to trick users with fake thumbnail previews – I hope this information prevents you from encountering troubles. The majority of malware distributed via email nowadays are executable files (.exe) or compressed executable files, rather than document files that attempt to leverage software vulnerabilities. We at JPCERT/CC have seen cases where users...
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NOTE: This article, originally published on 13 February, 2015, was updated as of 12 May, 2015 (See below). Hello all, this is You Nakatsuru (“TSURU”) from Analysis Center again. Today, I would like to describe a new UAC bypass method that has been used by the Dridex malware since December, 2014. Introduction Dridex is a banking trojan, which is a bot that communicates with a CC server through HTTP. Most...
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This is Shusei Tomonaga at Analysis Center. PlugX, a Remote Access Tool (RAT) often seen in many APT cases, has been in the wild for some years. Various sectors in Japan have been suffering from this type of attack from 2012, and Analysis Center has been working to catch up on the evolution of the PlugX family since then. In this blog post, I will write about a recent PlugX...
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Happy holidays to all, this is Tetsuya from Watch and Warning Group. Today, I would like to share a recent, remarkable trend discovered through TSUBAME sensors. In TSUBAME, we have observed a significant increase in packets destined to 8080/TCP since December 5th, 2014. When accessing source IP addresses using a web browser, the admin login screen for NAS devices provided by QNAP was seen in many cases for IP addresses...
