Current PayPal phishing campaign or “give me all your personal information”, (Mon, Feb 10th)

One of my colleagues sent me a new PayPal phishing e-mail today. Although it was fairly usual, as phishing e-mails go, since the campaign is still active and since it shows the current “let’s take all that we can get” mentality of the attackers quite well, I thought it was worth a short diary.

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Sandbox Detection Tricks & Nice Obfuscation in a Single VBScript , (Fri, Feb 7th)

I found an interesting VBScript sample that is a perfect textbook case for training or learning purposes. It implements a nice obfuscation technique as well as many classic sandbox detection mechanisms. The script is a dropper: it extracts from its code a DLL that will be loaded if the script is running outside of a sandbox. Its current VT score is 25/57 (SHA256: 29d3955048f21411a869d87fb8dc2b22ff6b6609dd2d95b7ae8d269da7c8cc3d)[1].

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