More Undetected PowerShell Dropper, (Tue, Dec 21st)

Last week, I published&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;a diary&#;x26;#;x5b;1&#;x26;#;x5d; about a PowerShell backdoor running below the radar with a VT score of 0&#;x26;#;x21; This time,&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;it&#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;&#;x26;#;x99;s a dropper with multiple obfuscation techniques in place. It is also important&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;to mention that&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;the injection technique used is&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;similar to Jan&#;x26;#;39;s diary posted yesterday&#;x26;#;x5b;2&#;x26;#;x5d; but I decided to review it because it has, here&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;again, a null VT store&#;x26;#;x5b;3&#;x26;#;x5d;&#;x26;#;x21;

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PowerPoint attachments, Agent Tesla and code reuse in malware, (Mon, Dec 20th)

Since any Office document that may contains macros can potentially be used by malware authors with similar result as the usual Excel spreadsheet with macros, threat actors have most probably utilized all of the available macro-enabled Office formats for attacks at some point. However, since most users would probably view PowerPoint slideshow asking them to enable macros with a not insignificant level suspicion, most attackers tend not to use any of PowerPoint file formats at all.

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