CERT Polska has partnered together with Microsoft, ESET and law enforcement agencies including US-CERT/DHS, FBI, Interpol and Europol in activities aimed at disrupting of the Dorkbot malware family. This disruption – which includes sinkholing of the botnet’s infrastructure – took place yesterday. Dorkbot is a well-known family of malware, operating …

Intro Dridex mostly comes to us as spam which contains a .doc with some macros, responsible for downloading a dropper. One can quickly analyze it using oledump.py and looking through vbscript, or naturally, just try to run it in a sandbox and obtain the dropped files. CFG extraction After …

During SECURE conference we have presented our findings about criminal group, which we called “Postal Group” (“Grupa pocztowa”) based on theris modus operandi. Detailed research regarding the group have been gathered in the form of report available under the link below.   PDF   During the SECURE conference, we presented a talk …

Recently, we obtained a sample of a new Android banking trojan, named GMBot, which tries to be self-contained (i.e. does not need Windows counterpart) and uses application overlay as a poor man’s webinjects substitute. This malware uses known and common techniques, but implements them in a way similar …

Domain Generation Algorithms are used in botnets to make it harder to block connections to Command & Control servers and to make it difficult to takeover botnet infrastructure. The main objective of these algorithms is to generate a big number of different domain names which usually look random, like pkjdgjwzcr.pl …

Recently we ran across a quite an interesting sample, which used an interesting obfuscation technique that was beautiful in its simplicity. But before we dive in, let us provide some background for it. One of the easier and most common techniques for automatic unpacking is to hook kernel32!WriteProcessMemory and …

Zaufana Trzecia Strona – a Polish security news portal – informed about a new attack on Polish user’s (link is in Polish) that used a Microsoft Office plugin install wizard as a decoy. In reality, the user not only installed the plugin, but also a malware called Smoke Loader. It allows …

CERT Polska along with 19 other partners from 11 countries have joined forces for CyberROAD – a 7FP project aimed to identify current and future issues in the fight against cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism in order to draw a strategic roadmap for cyber security research. A detailed snapshot of the technological, social …

In March 2015, S21sec published their analysis of the new e-banking trojan horse targetting Polish users. They named it “Slave”, because such a string was part of a path to one of the shared libraries. We think (in part thanks to the kernelmode.info thread) that Slave was made by …

Today, we published the annual CERT Polska report in its English version. This report presents the most important trends and observations that we think shaped Polish cybersecurity in 2014. This includes new, upcoming threats, their evolution and our responses to them. In 2014 CERT Polska continued its effort to better …