Showing posts with label worst social engineering attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worst social engineering attack. Show all posts

Monday, July 19, 2010

Worst Social Engineering Ever

From a recent submission via the email intake - hereyougo at vicheck.ca:

With a subject line of a invitation to a Tibetan event, invitation.rar (3026984137716828cf8f55b10bb0069) contained the aptly named "exploit.pdf" which certainly inspires confidence to open the attachment:

exploit.pdf:
EXECUTABLE SCAN: PDF Exploit Embedded Flash may be CVE-2010-1297 (genexploit/full)
REPORT: https://www.vicheck.ca/md5query.php?hash=ee81327f15db183f83815754fbfad5dd
Exploit method detected as genexploit - PDF Exploit Embedded Flash may be CVE-2010-1297.
Confidence ranking: 100 (11 hits).

Embedded EXE is encrypted with a 256 byte key as well as a simple replacement cipher.

Drops: