October issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Oct 1, 2012

The October issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

The October 2012 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF or PRC (Kindle) format.

Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:

  • Is AV the old dog?: 'Anti-virus does a very good job, but ... missing once is seen as failure in general.' Greg Day, Symantec.
  • Cridex botnet preview: Carmen Liang and Neo Tan focus on a detailed analysis of the Cridex banking trojan's injection routine, communication protocol, encryption scheme and working mechanism in order to shed light on the development path of the three most recent generations of Cridex bots.
  • Filename: BUGGY.COD.E: Raul Alvarez takes a close look at a recently discovered piece of malware that infects documents and executable files at the same time.
  • Inside a Black Hole: part 1: The most actively deployed exploit kit over the past year has without doubt been the Blackhole exploit kit. Gabor Szappanos attempts to fill in the (black)holes in our knowledge about this threat. In this article he covers how the server-side code can be analysed.
  • Code injection via return-oriented programming: Code injection first became popular in game cheats, where it was used to change the program's course of execution. Wayne Low looks at a piece of malware that takes advantage of the Windows messages flaw to perform code injection.
  • Book review: Operation Desolation: Paul Baccas reviews a short story by Windows systems internals expert and Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich: Operation Desolation.

Note: The October 2012 VB100 comparative review will be published as standalone article later in the month. As with all new VBSpam and VB100 reviews, the report will be available for non-subscribers to purchase as a standalone item (Virus Bulletin subscribers will be notified by email when the comparative is available to download). Non-subscribers can purchase VB100 reports here and VBSpam reports here.

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Posted on 10 October 2012 by Virus Bulletin

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