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Malvertising campaign on popular site leads to Silverlight exploit, Zeus Trojan

A popular website recently suffered a malvertising attack. Cisco published a blog post about what they said was a wider use of Microsoft Silverlight for exploitation, in particular with the Angler exploit kit. The goal of the attack is to redirect unsuspecting users to an exploit kit landing page in order to infect their computers. The exploit page is heavily obfuscated to make detection harder. There are interesting and funny bits of code within this Angler landing page worth pointing out. There is also a possible voluntary (or not?) typo in the code: eval”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2014/05/malvertising-campaign-on-popular-site-leads-to-silverlight-exploit-zeus-trojan/

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