Ransomwarecritical
IT threat evolution Q2 2021
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-0802 | Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Office Equation Editor | 7.8 | 93% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×3 | KEV |
| CVE-2021-1732 | Out-of-Bounds Write Local Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Win32k (CVE-2021-1732) | 7.8 | 78% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×2 | KEV |
| CVE-2021-28310 | Out-of-Bounds Write in Microsoft Win32k Allows Local Privilege Escalation on Windows 10 | 7.8 | 8% | KEV | KEV |
CVE-2021-31956+1 related CVE | Local Privilege Escalation via Out-of-Bounds Write in Microsoft Windows NTFS | 7.8 group max | 22% | KEV | KEV |
Indicators of compromise
auto-extracted · verify before use · export allAll| Type | Indicator | Context |
|---|---|---|
| domain | phongay.com | e opening of malicious RTF documents downloaded from static.phongay[.]com – all generated using RoyalRoad and attempting to exploit |
From the original article
15 min read at securelist.com
It is quite common for Chinese-speaking threat actors to share tools and methodologies: one such example is the infamous “DLL side-loading triad”: a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be side-loaded by it and an encoded payload, generally dropped from a self-extracting archive.
By @Securelist · securelist.com
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