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A Targeted Attack Against The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Kaspersky Securelistby @Securelist ()6 min read1 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2010-0188
Arbitrary Code Execution in Adobe Reader and Acrobat via Malicious PDF Handling
—88%KEVRansomware—
KEV

Indicators of compromise

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TypeIndicatorContext
ipv4123.120.110.126ere working on this report the domain resolution changed to 123.120.110.126 (same ISP), which is alive and responds on port 443. We let
ipv4123.120.111.163to the C&C. The command-and-control server name resolves to 123.120.111.163 , which is in China: At the start time of writing, the C&C
ipv4123.120.11.163which is in China: At the start time of writing, the C&C at 123.120.11.163 server didn’t not answer to connection attempts on port 443
ipv4123.140.57.166re to believe the SMTP headers, the e-mail was sent from IP 123.140.57.166 , which is a proxy in Seoul, Korea. Technical Details – 964
md5cbf76a32de0738fea7073b3d4b3f1d60F file named 964.PDF , which is 569,477 bytes in size (MD5: cbf76a32de0738fea7073b3d4b3f1d60). This PDF file contains an exploit (CVE-2010-0188) for Ado

From the original article

6 min read at securelist.com

Several days ago, a number of leaked documents from the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were published on Par:AnoIA, a new wikileaks-style site managed by the Anonymous collective. One of our users notified us of a suspicious document in the archive which is detected by our anti-malware products as Exploit. JS.

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