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Threat Spotlight: Group 72, Opening the ZxShell

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Analyze CVE-2011-2462 with Vani AIImpact, affected versions, exploitation, mitigations and detection

Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2011-2462
U3D Memory Corruption in Adobe Reader and Acrobat Enables Remote Code Execution
—89%KEV—
KEV
CVE-2013-3163
Remote Code Execution via Memory Corruption in Microsoft Internet Explorer
—71%KEV—
KEV
CVE-2014-0322
Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Internet Explorer
—85%KEV—
KEV

Indicators of compromise

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TypeIndicatorContext
md5e3878d541d17b156b7ca447eeb49d96aell module, Let’s take a look at the following sample: MD5: e3878d541d17b156b7ca447eeb49d96a SHA256: 1eda7e556181e46ba6e36f1a6bfe18ff5566f9d5e51c53b41d0
sha2561e200d0d3de360d9c32e30d4c98f07e100f6260a86a817943a8fb06995c15335xShell droppers mentioned earlier, there is a file (SHA256: 1e200d0d3de360d9c32e30d4c98f07e100f6260a86a817943a8fb06995c15335) that installs a kernel device driver called loveusd.sys .
sha2561eda7e556181e46ba6e36f1a6bfe18ff5566f9d5e51c53b41d08f9459342e26cowing sample: MD5: e3878d541d17b156b7ca447eeb49d96a SHA256: 1eda7e556181e46ba6e36f1a6bfe18ff5566f9d5e51c53b41d08f9459342e26c It exports the following functions, which are examined in g

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This post was authored by Andrea Allievi , Douglas Goddard , Shaun Hurley , and Alain Zidouemba . Recently, there was a blog post on the takedown of a botnet used by threat actor group known as Group 72 and their involvement in Operation SMN.

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