Friday, November 10, 2006

Web-Attacker Exposed: Source Code Discovered

Via Websense Security Blog -

While reading our previous posts, you may have noticed quite a few references to something called the Web-Attacker toolkit. The reason we have mentioned Web-Attacker so frequently is that nearly one-third of the malicious websites we discover are using it to infect their victims; it is incredibly popular. Take a look at an introduction to Web-Attacker, translated directly from the Russian website that sells the kit:

Dear Friends! We would like to offer you multi-component exploit Web-Attacker, that realizes vulnerabilities in the internet browsers Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. With the help of this exploit you will be able to install any programs on the local disks of visitors of your web pages. In the foundation of work of the exploit Web-Attacker, there are 7 already-known vulnerabilities in the internet browsers.

Objective of the Exploit: Hidden drop of the executable from the deleted source to the local hard drive of the site visitor.



Follow the link above for all the details. Very good write-up about one of the most widely used website hacking toolkits ever created. Nice job Websense.

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