New year, old tricks: Hunting for CircleCI configuration files, (Mon, Jan 9th)

I have written before about attackers looking for exposed configuration files. Configuration files often include credentials or other sensitive information.Today, I noticed some scans for a files called “/.circleci/config.yml”. Given the recent breach at CircleCI, I dug in a bit deeper.

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DShield Sensor JSON Log Analysis, (Sun, Jan 8th)

This is a review and analysis of some of my json DShield logs for a 9-day period. For this, I created some parsers using jq [1] and MS PowerBI which I described here to parse GeoIP [2] with the script previously posted here. This is the highlights from this timeframe 5 – 13 Dec 2022:

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AutoIT Remains Popular in the Malware Landscape, (Fri, Jan 6th)

Yesterday Brad wrote an interesting diary[1] about a piece o malware based on AutoIT. Funny, I was also analyzing a sample that has been written in the same language. I don’t know exactly the source (it was spotted via a hunting ruile) but it seems to target the same people (based on the file name). Mine was delivered in a RAR archive called “doc-Impostos_514281.rar” (SHA256:84a35910ad7acb1455695be7aced111356fac9abc818f9ae0859677b07ac0d04). The VT score is very low: 1/61[2].

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AutoIT Remains Popular in the Malware Landscape, (Fri, Jan 6th)

Yesterday Brad wrote an interesting diary[1] about a piece o malware based on AutoIT. Funny, I was also analyzing a sample that has been written in the same language. I don’t know exactly the source (it was spotted via a hunting ruile) but it seems to target the same people (based on the file name). Mine was delivered in a RAR archive called “doc-Impostos_514281.rar” (SHA256:84a35910ad7acb1455695be7aced111356fac9abc818f9ae0859677b07ac0d04). The VT score is very low: 1/61[2].

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