Scans for Movable Type Vulnerability (CVE-2021-20837), (Fri, Mar 18th)

Yesterday, our honeypots started seeing many requests scanning for the Movable Type API. Movable Type is a content management system comparable to WordPress or Drupal. Unlike the other two written in PHP, Movable Type uses a Perl backend. Movable Type also has no free version available [MTABOUT].

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Clean Binaries with Suspicious Behaviour, (Tue, Mar 15th)

EDR or “Endpoint Detection & Response” is a key element of many networks today. An agent is installed on all endpoints to track suspicious/malicious activity and (try to) block it. Behavioral monitoring is also a key element in modern SIEM infrastructure: To see a word.exe running is definitively not malicious, same with a Powershell script being launched. But if you monitor parent/child relations, to see a Powershell script launched from a Word process, that is suspicious! Here is a simple Sigma[1] rule to detect this behavior:

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