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In diary entry “Quick Howto: Extract URLs from RTF files” I mentioned ZIP files. There are OLE objects inside this RTF file:   They can be analyzed with oledump.py like this: Options –storages and -E %CLSID% are used to show the abused CLSID. Stream CONTENTS contains the URL: We extracted this URL with the method…

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It’s Friday, let’s have a look at another simple piece of malware to close a busy week! I received a Fedex notification about a delivery. Usually, such emails are simple phishing attacks that redirect you to a fake login page to collect your credentials. Here, it was a bit different: Nothing really fancy but it…

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[This is a Guest Diary by Austin Bodolay, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Over the past several months, I have gained practical insight into the challenges of deploying and operating a honeypot, even within a relatively simple environment. This work highlighted how varying hardware, software, and network design—can significantly alter…

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  [This is a guest diary contributed by Claire Perry (LinkedIn)] The structural integrity of modern society is predicated upon a dense and often opaque network of interconnected systems. For decades, the modeling of these systems remained siloed within specific domains: industrial processes were governed by the hierarchical constraints of the Purdue Model, while corporate…

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