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Bedep Lurking in Angler's Shadows

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2015-0310
ASLR Protection-Mechanism Bypass in Adobe Flash Player
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Indicators of compromise

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domaindinorinwass.comTalos dove deeper on two of these referrers in particular: dinorinwass[.]com/search.php wittalparuserigh[.]com Again, leveraging OpenD
domainnews4news14.comtures. First, the syntax used was similar to the following: news4news14[.]com/?source=7-381898&campaign_id=2849 This syntax indicates i
domainnews4newsxxxx.comreferers that were using a group of domains that resembled news4newsXXXX.com where XXXX is some variant of year (i.e. 14, 15, 2014, 2015
domainwittalparuserigh.comthese referrers in particular: dinorinwass[.]com/search.php wittalparuserigh[.]com Again, leveraging OpenDNS, Talos was able to identify mor

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10 min read at blog.talosintelligence.com

In October 2015, Talos released our detailed investigation of the Angler Exploit Kit which outlined the infrastructure and monetary impact of an exploit kit campaign delivering ransomware. During the investigation we found that two thirds of Angler's payloads were some variation of ransomware and noted one of the other major payloads was Bedep. Bedep is a malware downloader that is exclusive to Angler.

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