CONTENTS:

NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES Jan. 17 - 24
TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Malicious actor delivering new backdoor, trojan variants

NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

Title: APT launches new attacks with FlawedGrace, ServHelper variants
Description: TA505, a well-known attacker who has a history launching ransomware campaigns, is using new variants of the ServHelper backdoor and FlawedGrace remote access tool. These appear to be long-term investments by the actor that they have been distributing since November 2018.

Reference: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/servhelper-and-flawedgrace-new-malware-introduced-ta505

Snort SIDs: 48879 - 48887

Title: BITTER RAT resurfaces in Microsoft-focused attack
Description: A new variant of the BITTER remote access tool is in the wild once again. Attackers are trying to exploit CVE-2017-11882, a vulnerability in Microsoft Office, to download the malware. Victims receive malicious, specially crafted Word documents that execute HTTP GET requests to download special executable files.

Reference: https://community.rsa.com/community/products/netwitness/blog/2018/01/10/malspam-delivers-bitter-rat-07-01-2018

Snort SIDs: 48873 - 48878

INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY

France fined Google roughly $57 million for privacy violations, the largest fine handed out yet under GDPR laws.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/france-fines-google-nearly-57-million-for-first-major-violation-of-new-european-privacy-regime/2019/01/21/

Several consumer protection websites are down due to the government shutdown, including the do-not-call list and the Federal Trade Commissions site where users can report identity fraud.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/13/18178594/fcc-ftc-robocall-complaints-websites-government-shutdown

A new report from the Pentagons Inspector General found 266 open security vulnerabilities in American military equipment and systems.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xy5ky/the-american-military-sucks-at-cybersecurity

Security researchers discovered malicious Android apps that pose as navigation apps, but only display ads over top of the legitimate Google Maps app.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/some-android-gps-apps-are-just-showing-ads-on-top-of-google-maps/

Twitter patched a bug that made some private users protected tweets publicly available.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/twitter-bug-revealed-some-android-users-private-tweets/

A federal judge declared that U.S. law enforcement officers cannot force users to unlock their phones using facial or fingerprint recognition technology.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#278518b542b7

RECENT VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE

COMPILED BY THE QUALYS VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM

This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are

available. System administrators can use this list to help in

prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability

Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit

frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet

activity.

ID: | CVE-2018-8653

Title: | Microsoft Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft

Description: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer, aka “Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability.” This affects Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 11, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8643.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: | CVE-2018-15982

Title: | Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe

Description: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.153 and earlier versions. Successful exploitation could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2018-15982 exists in the wild.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: | CVE-2018-10933

Title: | libssh Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Vendor: libssh

Description: A vulnerability was found in libssh’s server-side state machine before versions 0.7.6 and 0.8.4. A malicious client could create channels without first performing authentication, resulting in unauthorized access.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

ID: | CVE-2018-11776

Title: | Apache Struts 2 Namespace Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (S2-057)
Vendor: Apache Software Foundation

Description: Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16 suffer from possible Remote Code Execution when using results with no namespace and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace. Same possibility when using url tag which doesn’t have value and action set and in same time, its upper action(s) have no or wildcard namespace.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: | CVE-2018-2628

Title: | Oracle Weblogic Deserialization Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Oracle

Description: Vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware (subcomponent: WLS Core Components). Supported versions that are affected are 10.3.6.0, 12.1.3.0, 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via T3 to compromise Oracle WebLogic Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle WebLogic Server.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

ID: | CVE-2018-8174

Title: | Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft

Description: The VBScript engine contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to how it handles objects in memory. An attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: | CVE-2018-7600

Title: | Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (SA-CORE-2018-002)
Vendor: Drupal

Description: Drupal before 7.58, 8.x before 8.3.9, 8.4.x before 8.4.6, and 8.5.x before 8.5.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code because of an issue affecting multiple subsystems with default or common module configurations.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: | CVE-2018-0886

Title: | Microsoft Credential Security Support Provider Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft

Description: The Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP) in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and 1709 Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to how CredSSP validates request during the authentication process, aka “CredSSP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability”.

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES Jan. 17 - 24:

COMPILED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

SHA 256: f54459dbcda4aae7f983f25a5917a1dbf932fe761b9b18396f1d7568e2e24d84

MD5: 21a9440e6b5ecec1472da9c3dedab4ab

VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/f54459dbcda4aae7f983f25a5917a1dbf932fe761b9b18396f1d7568e2e24d84/details

Typical Filename: 3dfx32v2.dll

Claimed Product: Voodoo2 DirectX for Windows 95

Detection Name: Auto.F54459DBCD.Sbmt.tht.Talos

SHA 256: 3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3

MD5: 47b97de62ae8b2b927542aa5d7f3c858

VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3/details

Typical Filename: qmreportupload.exe

Claimed Product: qmreportupload

Detection Name: Win.Trojan.Generic::in10.talos

SHA 256: 6d36f92ee3f1a7be56e00118cebf62fc4f3f127e307f5a4e7f008793ca549671

MD5: b23f736c46d9fa238b02c9eb0cea37cf

VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/6d36f92ee3f1a7be56e00118cebf62fc4f3f127e307f5a4e7f008793ca549671/details

Typical Filename: CONFIGURETGN.EXE

Claimed Product: N/A

Detection Name: W32.Auto:6d36f9.in03.Talos

SHA 256: c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f

MD5: e2ea315d9a83e7577053f52c974f6a5a

VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/c3e530cc005583b47322b6649ddc0dab1b64bcf22b124a492606763c52fb048f/details

Typical Filename: Tempmf582901854.exe

Claimed Product: N/A

Detection Name: W32.AgentWDCR:Gen.21gn.1201

SHA 256: 15716598f456637a3be3d6c5ac91266142266a9910f6f3f85cfd193ec1d6ed8b

MD5: 799b30f47060ca05d80ece53866e01cc

VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/15716598f456637a3be3d6c5ac91266142266a9910f6f3f85cfd193ec1d6ed8b/details

Typical Filename: 799b30f47060ca05d80ece53866e01cc.vir

Claimed Product: N/A

Detection Name: W32.Generic:Gen.21ij.1201