Have you, or your anti-virus software, noticed a file called ‘cna12.dll’ on your computer? Have you suddenly found that you have an imaginary friend called ‘piress’ whom you didn’t know about? If so, you may have fallen victim to a MySQL attack (and ‘piress’ may not be so imaginary, nor friendly for that matter). Continue Reading
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All posts for the month January, 2013
Seeing an increase in MySQL attacks hitting your network and interested in knowing more about them? This post finishes the dynamic analysis and, for those who wish I’d hurry up and get to the point, contains the conclusion
. This post is long, but a lot of it is log output. Continue Reading
Seeing an increase in MySQL attacks hitting your network and interested in knowing more about them? This post follows on from the previous post which discussed how to run a Cuckoo Sandbox analysis of a MySQL attack.
This post starts analysing the results and notices an issue with a particular malware trait and Cuckoo (v0.4.2). Awfully gripping stuff — I was on the edge of my seat, but then that could be because my table was too far away from my chair. Continue Reading
Seeing an increase in MySQL attacks hitting your network and interested in knowing more about them? This post discusses how to run the attack within the Cuckoo Sandbox. Subsequent posts will analyse the results.