Category: SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

Veeam Phishing via Wav File, (Fri, Jul 18th)

A interesting phishing attempt was reported by a contact. It started with a simple email that looked like a voice mail notification like many VoIP systems deliver when the call is missed. There was a WAV file attached to the…

Hiding Payloads in Linux Extended File Attributes, (Thu, Jul 17th)

This week, it's SANSFIRE[1]! I'm attending the FOR577[2] training (“Linux Incident Response & Threat Hunting”). On day 2, we covered the different filesystems and how data is organized on disk. In the Linux ecosystem, most filesystems (ext3, ext4, xfs, …)…

Keylogger Data Stored in an ADS, (Tue, Jul 15th)

If many malware samples try to be “filess” (read: they try to reduce their filesystem footprint to the bare minimum), another technique remains interesting: Alternate Data Streams or “ADS”[1]. This NTFS feature allows files to contain multiple data streams, enabling…