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Red October

Kaspersky Securelistby @Securelist ()6 min read1
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2009-3129
CVE-2009-3129: Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Excel via FEATHEADER Record
—84%KEV—
KEV
CVE-2010-3333
Stack Buffer Overflow in Microsoft Office RTF Parsing Allows Remote Code Execution
—89%KEV—
KEV
CVE-2011-3544
Remote Code Execution in Oracle Java SE JRE Applet Rhino Script Engine
—97%KEV—
KEV
CVE-2012-0158
Remote Code Execution in Microsoft MSCOMCTL.OCX (Windows Common Controls)
—100%KEVRansomware—
KEV

Indicators of compromise

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md535f1572eb7759cb7a66ca459c093e8a1o infiltrated victim network(s) via Java exploitation (MD5: 35f1572eb7759cb7a66ca459c093e8a1 – ‘NewsFinder.jar’ ), known as the ‘Rhino’ exploit (CVE-201
md5c3b0d1403ba35c3aba8f4529f43fb300n a public sandbox at malwr.com ( http://malwr.com/analysis/c3b0d1403ba35c3aba8f4529f43fb300/ ), and only on February 14th, the very same day that they
urlhttp://www.hotinfonews.com/news/dailynews2.php?id=&t=win”hat is concatenated with the other variables, resulting in “hXXp://www.hotinfonews.com/news/dailynews2.php?id=&t=win”. It is this content that is written to disk and executed on

From the original article

6 min read at securelist.com

Since the publication of our report, our colleagues from Seculert have discovered and posted a blog about the usage of another delivery vector in the Red October attacks (http://blog. seculert. com/2013/01/operation-red-october-java-angle.

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