Microsoft EMETv2 released
Today, Microsoft released a new version of their "Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit". A rather unwieldy name, but quite interesting technology - with EMET, legacy applications on OS versions as far back as WindowsXP can now also be protected with Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Exception Handler Overwrite Protection (SEHOP) and more, and the application doesn't even have to be DEP-aware. If you have vulnerable legacy apps on Windows that you need to keep alive for a little while longer, I suggest to take a look at EMETv2.
SDF, please!
"We're under a targeted malware attack!", a friend of mine yelled into the phone. "We are getting lots of oddly named PDFs, attached to personalized emails, sent only to certain employees in our firm!". From some past experience with chewing through our nasty malware repository here at SANS ISC, I had learned a thing or two about malicious PDFs, so I agreed to take a look.
One hour later, it was clear that the PDFs in this case were free of any exploit, completely harmless, and contained only the average "I AM A COUSIN OF THE LATE ZESKEKE NGAGWENE" type of Nigerian 419 (advance-fee) fraud spam.
But the whole episode gave me pause. It really looks like the past two years of never ending new waves of PDF exploits have degraded PDF in the mind of every security analyst to a level somewhere at par with ANI and SCR files: No matter what it claims to be, it ain't nothing good.
I very much agree with Stephen Northcutt's comment in SANS Newsbites two months ago. He asked: "Is there an alternative to a .pdf? It was supposed to be a printable image of what you saw on the screen. At least that was the idea 15 years ago. It should not need "launch" functions to do that. Do you remember five or six years ago, you weren't supposed to send an excel spreadsheet or a word document because they might contain malware, you were supposed to send a .pdf. Guess that has changed!"
Time for SDF - the Safe Document Format. You know, one that just supports pixels in various shades of gray, and does not need to include the ability to play a movie in 3D accompanied by surround sound. Just a nice plain document that can be opened, read and printed, without any of the nagging feeling of dread that nowadays accompanies clicking on a PDF.
Anyone?
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