Attack Detailed

The poof pf concept of this vulnerability was made public some time last week.

The website in question, is a news agency and carries articles on some reality show winners.

It is detected by ESET as Win32/Exploit.CVE-2014-6332.A.

Internet Explorer ‘Unicorn’ bug being exploited in the wild

The exploit is based on proof-of-concept code published by a Chinese researcher.

This is the part which has been modified by the attacker.

The attacker has used a Visual Basic script for the exploit.

Internet Explorer ‘Unicorn’ bug being exploited in the wild

natmasla.exe»%TEMP%\KdFKkDls.txt&@echo !

Then the file is passed to the ftp command.

It will connect to an ftp server with a username/password, download a binary, and execute it.

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The downloaded binary has been detected by ESET as Win32/IRCBot.NHR.

No real attacks have yet been reported using this exploit.

Researchers expected this since it is a very new exploit.

Users are recommended to use Windows update and patch their PCs immediately.

source: www.techworm.net