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Will Astrum Fill the Vacuum in the Exploit Kit Landscape?

  • Posted on:May 18, 2017 at 7:40 am
  • Posted in:Exploits, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Joseph C Chen (Fraud Researcher)
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The decline of exploit kit activity—particularly from well-known exploit kits like Magnitude, Nuclear, Neutrino, and Rig during the latter half of 2016—doesn’t mean exploit kits are throwing in the towel just yet. This is the case with Astrum (also known as Stagano), an old and seemingly reticent exploit kit we observed to have been updated multiple times as of late.

Astrum’s recent activities feature several upgrades and shows how it’s starting to move away from the more established malware mentioned above. It appears these changes were done to lay the groundwork for future campaigns, and possibly to broaden its use. With a modus operandi that deters analysis and forensics by abusing the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, it appears Astrum is throwing down the gauntlet.

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Tags: Astrumdiffie-hellmanexploit kit

How Exploit Kit Operators are Misusing Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

  • Posted on:September 21, 2015 at 5:48 pm
  • Posted in:Exploits, Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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By Brooks Li, Stanley Liu and Allen Wu Feedback from the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ has allowed us to discover that the notorious Angler and Nuclear exploit kits have included the latest Flash vulnerability (CVE-2015-5560) in their regular update. This means that systems with Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.209 and earlier are vulnerable; however users running the…

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